The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...