A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

It turns out this obsession with picture-perfect portraits isn’t new and existed long before Photoshop and filters. Back then ...

Robyn Asleson, the lead curator and curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, also completed extensive research that confirms the identities of hundreds of sitters in New ...

"Portraits have the power to stop time and reveal something essential about who we are," says Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, editor ...

About 1,800 19th-century silhouette portraits made by a traveling artist named William Bache are included in a book the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has digitized and made available ...

The Old Masters comprise a range of portraits, landscapes, mythological and history subjects, from Italian, British, Dutch and Flemish artists. Notable highlights include a view of Carisbrooke Castle ...

How a 19th-Century portrait of Abraham Lincoln was later revealed to be a ... One publisher in Ohio issued about 50 portraits of Union military heroes, ... "In the early part of his career, ...

This image shows an early 20th century Florence Harris reproduction of a 19th century George Catlin painting, “Portrait of a Kickapoo man, Ahtonwetuk” at the Smithsonian Institution in ...

How a 19th-Century portrait of Abraham Lincoln was later revealed to be a fake. 14 March 2024. ... According to The New York Times, "In the early months of his presidency, ...