Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...

Patented in the late 1840s by Disdéri, who made this series of images, the "cdv" became the first truly popular form of photography, transforming one’s portrait into a portable, shareable and ...

There have been countless retrospectives on the 19th century painter, examining his characterful high-society portraits or watercolor landscapes, but “Sargent in Fashion” — created in ...

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Before there were DMs or selfies, there were watercolour self-portraits, and an American artist boldly used one to send a sensual painting to her lover.

Roger Hargreaves will give a talk on "The Social Context of 19th Century Portrait Photography" Thursday night at Auburn University's Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts. The free event begins ...

An unknown 19th-century portrait of UMD medical school founder has been discovered in a former Baltimore seafood restaurant’s closet.

There have been countless retrospectives on the 19th century painter, examining his characterful high-society portraits or watercolor landscapes, but “Sargent in Fashion” — created in ...