Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

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 ...

I stood in line for a couple of hours to see the Obama portraits six months after they went on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. This was a few years ago. There were people in ...

Artists Wiley and Sherald have been commissioned to paint the Obamas’ portraits. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to deliver remarks after her portrait was presented, April 24, 2006, at the ...

I AM going to ramble as an old man and tell some of the things which in these days may seem quaint or amusing, and which will lead to some of the mild adventures of a portrait painter. In the ...

Thelma Simons poses next to the award winning portrait that she created of her husband and their Australian Kelpie. Last year, Thelma Simons painted a portrait of her husband, Bill, for his 80th ...

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY, announced the discovery of a complete hidden portrait concealed ...

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his ...

The portraits, which will hang permanently in the presidential residence, were created by artists Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

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