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

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

View Untitled - Portrait of a Blonde Woman - late 19th / early 20th century, oil on canvas, apparently unsigned (Early 20th Century) Manner of William Merritt Chase; oil on canvas; h. 12, w. 10 frame ...

Some portraits are also homages to some of her favorite artists, such as Frida Kahlo. “Different” is certainly one way to describe Portesi’s work. Her photos are really visual records of sculptures, ...

Did This Famously Beautiful 19th-Century Countess’s Artfully Posed Self-Portraits Pave the Way for the ... she was known as the most beautiful woman in the world and became, notoriously, the ...

He made multiple paintings of a local peasant woman, Gordina de Groot, also known as Sien. This portrait prefaces Van Gogh’s early masterpiece The Potato Eaters (1885), which depicts the De ...

Married to L. Clarke Davis, a prominent newspaper editor, she rubbed shoulders with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other 19th century authors.

February 06, 2023 Local artist uses 19th-century photographic process to create unique tintype portraits Montgomery County native Maurene Cooper is the only woman in Philly offering wet-collodion ...