A 19th-century family portrait that was altered to cover an enslaved teenager has been restored to its original version. The painting, initially etched on canvas, is now set to hang in the ...

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the Met transcript The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana ...

By McKenna Oxenden More than two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album filled ... as more people trace their family’s history through genetic ...

The figure of Bélizaire was painted over approximately 50 years later, but after a century ... years of the portrait’s execution, all three Frey children had died. The family plunged ...

A beautiful yet unassuming 19th-century portrait of a mixed race woman believed ... U.S., and tells a fascinating story of a free Black family before emancipation. It’s also a rare work from ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring ... death and immigration records; and family trees dating back centuries.

A Cheshire family of the post-Revolution period will be symbolically reunited at an exhibition of paintings scheduled to open June 14 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Some time in 1809, a painter who signed his ...

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 ...

Every year, humans worldwide are said to take more than a trillion photos. Many of them graze ... the latter 50 years of the 19th century, captivates Tim Greyhavens, who recently published ...