A portrait of Abraham Lincoln that once hung in the presidential office of Theodore Roosevelt has resurfaced after being lost ...

Michael Shane Neal, perhaps America's greatest living portraitist, recently fulfilled a long-held ambition: to paint a living ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “The Spirit of Invention: Patent Office and Patentees” June 26 ...

A rare 17th-century portrait showing a Black and white boy side by side is under investigation, as experts seek to uncover ...

The best portrait painters are part artist, part diplomat and part psychologist—and even then, there are no guarantees.

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.

Two years ago, Gustav Klimt’s final portrait — a vibrant portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan — topped the artist’s auction record when it sold for a staggering $108 million. The Austrian ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

Follow a long-term painting journey exploring the self-portrait process, early development stages, and the evolution of ...

A nearly 200-year-old portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall was removed from the Augusta County Courthouse for restoration.

After President Trump said how much he disliked a painted portrait of him hanging in the Colorado state Capitol, the artist now says that his knock to her abilities has threatened her livelihood of ...