Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits ... Folk Art Museum, where an exhibition of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th ...

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 article presents 19th-century photographic tableaux as early forms of social media – visual tools for connection, status, ...

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Starting April 16 at the Honolulu Museum of Art, you can view three 19th-century paintings ... will hang in the museum’s Portrait Gallery. The painting was done ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...