The painting in a circular frame is titled “Portrait of a Wealthy African” and is on loan at the Walters through June, 2014. It is thought to have been painted in the 1530s by an unknown ...

A missing portrait of the English King Henry VIII was found after an eagle-eyed art historian spotted it in the background of a photograph.

A famous portrait of King Henry VIII, long considered lost, has been found after an art historian spotted it in the background of a photo shared on social media.

It’s one of the earliest standalone self-portraits in Western painting — and for my two pfennigs, the greatest self-portrait ever painted: a picture that radiates authority five centuries on.

How Tony Notarberardino’s ‘Chelsea Hotel Portraits’ Captured the End of an Era At ACA Galleries, the photographer documents twenty-five years at the iconic hotel in portraits of the bohemian ...

Called the “Tower of Faces” this three-story-tall exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., displays about 1,500 portraits of residents from Elsiskes ...

Albrecht Durer's 'Self Portrait' (1500) proposed the self as a subject deserving of intense focus and contemplation. Read on to learn more.

The National Portrait Gallery has just turned 20 so we thought it was a good time to find out more about this historical artform and why portraits are still so popular.

Set in 1500s Renaissance Florence, “The Marriage Portrait” — which was published in 2022 — follows the fictional tale of young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici, a sheltered 16-year-old who ...

My aim with British Portraits is to take the exhibition to different gallery spaces around Britain, each time adding new images taken locally to engage communities through portrait photography.