In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the nation, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced two ...

A painting by 17th- and 18th-century French artist Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), looted by the Nazis and recovered in the famous Monuments Men photo, is coming up at auction at Christie’s Paris.

The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph. Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait d'une femme, à mi-corps. The Monuments Men recovered the ...

Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting Blue Boy inspired 21st century painter Kehinde Wiley, and they're being shown across from each other... 2 portraits of young men face off — and show a story ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It’s a story that begins ...

Allied soldiers rescued the portrait and other works from Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle in 1945. Bettmann via Getty Images In an iconic 1945 photograph, four American soldiers stand on the steps of ...

(AP) - A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of ...

One of the most distinguished portrait painters New England has produced, CHARLES HOPKINSON painted the leading lights of Harvard during the administrations of Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant — ...

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WORCESTER — A beautiful 1864 portrait of renowned English actress Ellen Terry is one of the most visitor-requested paintings in London’s National Portrait Gallery, but now you don’t have to travel so ...