The stiff, formal images fail to reflect her passionate and dedicated nature. Isabella II’s portraits usually depict her as a regal and composed monarch, but her reign was marked by political ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the ...

The year was 2006, and National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore wanted to try making formal portraits of animals in captivity instead of his usual shots of them in the wild. For his first ...

Colorado leaders said a portrait of President Donald Trump will be taken down from the state Capitol after he complained ...

He was born in 1909 in Toledo, Ohio, and although at the age of 14 he took some drawing lessons, he did not receive any formal art education and was ... other museums and supported himself by painting ...

Students in a spring Ceramics studio called Figure Modeling are creating life-size portraits of a live model in water-based clay. Taught by faculty member Ann Hirsch, the course focuses on symmetry, ...