Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. The Library of Congress The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...

Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed to be Mary Ann Tritt Cassell went on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art late last month. It is making headlines for ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

Soon after, New Orleans fell to the Union Army. “Did he survive past ... what the museum paid for the Frey family portrait. But 19th century portraits of people of African descent, even with ...

The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th-century Paris ... costumed self-portraits which reimagined the possibilities of the medium. Born Virginia Oldoïni ...

Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. It was one of the means by which Abraham Lincoln came to power, gaining the ...