Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

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

Frederick Douglass was likely the most photographed American of the 19th century—there are ... asking if they would pose as their famous forebears in portraits he was recreating.

And a few days later the new Government too removed portraits of the Duke of Wellington among a host of other famous British ...