"How did this mid-18th century drawing from England end up in the trash in upstate New York?" A dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, recently made a remarkable discovery while searching through a trash ...

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...

Per the lot listing, Romney was “uninhibited by the dictates of 18th-century aesthetics.” The artist used sweeping, “rapidly executed” lines to convey the outlines of his subject.

How did this mid-18th century drawing from England end up in the trash in upstate New York?” The drawing bears the label “G. Romney” on its mount and the artist’s studio stamp on the reverse.

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist Franz Christoph Janneck, in which an alchemist ...

The Rijksmuseum has acquired a rare terracotta sculpture of Clara, an 18th-century rhinoceros that captivated audiences ...