The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, and sports jerseys. She gained international attention for her album ...

Michael Jilg, a Hays artist, painted an 8-foot-by-8-foot portrait of President Washington 50 years ago for the country's bicentennial celebration. After spending some time outside in front of the ...

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 ...

Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the ...

The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled. Now he ...

Administration officials discussed adding multiple images of Trump to the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, and a second ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

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 ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the ...

Donald Trump wants a new presidential portrait done to replace one commissioned after his first term that’s never seen the ...

The latest arena for the fraternal feud between Prince William and Prince Harry isn’t a memoir or an American TV show, but London’s National Portrait Gallery. When the museum reopens to the public ...