Prints of old Mexican War-era heroes were reissued with new heads; beardless pictures of men like Lincoln, Lee, and Jackson were updated. One publisher in Ohio issued about 50 portraits of Union ...

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 ...

Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of computing and she loved the new technology of photography too. These pictures are now worth ...

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 ...

“Dandyism is a mysterious institution,” he said of the cult of the fastidiously-dressed, 19th-century male ... tightly composed portraits in Ball’s signature airy stretches of color ...