click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age ... supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question ...

Meet William Mumler, the amateur chemist who stumbled into spirit photography and pioneered an entire industry, in this ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

the 19th century teacher and abolitionist. A humble man who considered himself homely, he once declined a request to sit for a portrait by saying, "O no, no, my ugly face shall not go down to ...

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To confront Paul Gauguin in the year 2024 isn't just to gaze upon the work of a pioneering, highly versatile Post-Impressionist artist. It also means looking at a phrase and idea that have gained a ...

Sir Keir admitted last month he asked for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to ... four separate terms totalling 12 years in the late 19th Century, was also responsible for major progressive reforms ...

Gift from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation will fund a new curatorial position to oversee the collection, maintain the works, ...

The symptoms of this mania were startling: fans were so obsessed that they wore his portrait on brooches ... Up until the beginning of the 19th century, classical music had been a mostly civilised art ...

Assouline latest, Fifth Avenue, makes for the perfect holiday present this year. The luxurious book follows the history of ...

A mountain man loses his connection to nature in this strange but stunning portrait of modernity set in the shadow of the ...

The Lindley Filters in Warsaw are a unique example of late 19th-century ... the man to decide about the creation of the Warsaw Filters was Russian and the man to build them was an Englishman – Willam ...