Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

French photography pioneer Charles Nègre created a 3D self-portrait using a "witch's mirror" - a clever piece of 19th-century ...

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million. It is currently on offer at an art fair but even ...

An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the ...

One painter was considered to be a leading artist of the West. Another, also a musician, didn’t earn enough to make a living ...

displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th century art. The half-length portrait shows Jones in his ecclesiastical robes, with Bible in hand. Its style is simple; yet it is ...

The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. The floral elements in the painting can also be seen in Klimt’s “Portrait ... during the 19th century. Drawing upon ethnic ...

This National Portrait Gallery exhibition allows visitors to feel part of the energy of the Eighties, Nineties and early 2000s. The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of ... magic and ...