Bertha Wegmann, “Portrait of the Swedish Painter Jeanna Buck” (1887), oil on panel (image ... sexier than we might expect of 19th-century middle-aged women, no matter how modern.

The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, announced it will host two exhibits this summer, “Mary Cassatt/Berthe Morisot: Allies ...

A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

Founded in 1805, PAFA is the oldest art institute and museum in the United States. At the time, studying art was prominently ...

Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the ...

Having paved new paths for established art genres turned stale, and sometimes even created their own genres, Polish female ...

The nanny has held a special place at home and in the works of many artists, including Vincent Van Gogh and Edouard Manet ...

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a second-class ...

These goddess-like figures show the influence of the classical art that De Morgan had studied. Immaculately executed works ...