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 ...

Tim Herron and the Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists group have been capturing portraits for many years, growing their ...

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 ...

The Portrait Painter and His Subject One of the most distinguished portrait painters New England has produced, CHARLES HOPKINSON painted the leading lights of Harvard during the administrations of ...

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 ...

When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man. When a rare portrait by one of Britain’s first ...