It was bad luck for the owner of a portrait of a lovely young Roman model, when the future King Edward VII walked into the artist’s studio in February 1859, and fell for her immediately.

His spine is straight, his shoulders are back. It's a rare, formal portrait of a Black American man of the era. But what is most compelling about the painting is Frederick’s expression.

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag. When a collector presented the ...

A global investigation tracked the portrait to a British auction house and ultimately a buyer in Italy who did not know he had purchased stolen art Author of the article: You can save this article ...

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who is assigned to fly to the ...

There are "superb" portraits of the bohemians of Kristiania (Oslo), such as the "charismatic anarchist" Hans Jaeger, and of many of the city's great and good. The paintings illustrate Munch's ...

A portrait of President Donald Trump hung by state Republicans in the Colorado Capitol six years ago was removed this week after the president raged against it on social media. Trump took to his ...

But the artist didn’t stop with the postman: He painted the entire family, making 26 portraits of Roulin and his wife, Augustine, and their three children. It’s “one of the most impressive ...

By Michael Slenske For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his ...

Yet, it was in the many portraits also produced by Munch that he was able to attempt a slightly more subtle probing of the human condition. A group of more than 40 of these character studies have ...

The president is demanding 'Radical Left' Democrat Governor Jared Polis remove the artwork, which is hanging alongside portraits of 'all the other presidents.' 'Nobody likes a bad picture or ...

Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was originally in Boughton House, Northamptonshire An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft ...