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 ...

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 ...

The Countess of Castiglione, a ravishing Italian aristocrat living in 19th ... portraits which reimagined the possibilities of the medium. Born Virginia Oldoïni to an aristocratic family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...