Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

A rare 16th-century Italian Rennaisance portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola is the surprise star of New York's annual Winter Show.

The portrait was left unfinished in the painter’s studio when he died, and questions persist over the identity of the subject and what happened to the painting during Nazi rule in Austria. By Scott ...

Oil painting can feel overwhelming at first, but this video breaks everything down into a clear and practical process. You’ll ...

Thelma Simons poses next to the award winning portrait that she created of her husband and their Australian Kelpie. Last year, Thelma Simons painted a portrait of her husband, Bill, for his 80th ...

When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man. When a rare portrait by one of Britain’s first ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen by the public for more than 80 years, will go under the hammer in Paris next month. The painting, “Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat,” depicts French ...