Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... Germany to gain deeper knowledge and skill of painting, returning to the ...

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... skies and untouched landscape was the British-American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848).

In the 19th century, photographic portraits largely replaced painted miniatures. This locket was cleverly fitted with multiple pictures. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection ...

I saw art then as I wanted to see it ... However, as this exhibition makes clear, most of the late-19th-century American painters in Paris were conformists, not visionaries.

The High Museum of Art has received a major gift of 90 19th century American paintings and sculptures, helping establish it as an important resource ...

The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of women into celebrations of friends, family and lovers – with plenty of rhinestones. The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and ...