As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history.

This George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by James Madison, has a colorful history. Now Christie’s in ...

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to paint a portrait in Photoshop that captures the viewer's attention. I'm working from a reference of Cassandra, whose striking dark hair contrasts beautifully ...

The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls. “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” by Gustav Klimt.Credit...im Kinsky ...

The 1562 likeness of Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, was created by Hans Eworth, a Flemish artist whose Tudor-era ...

Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz created an uncanny reflection on presence and absence in a painting of his parents The motives for making a painting can be thumpingly straightforward: You see something, ...

A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

A historical Clymer Tulip Festival sign, also pictured in the book. Submitted photo CLYMER — History is often told not just through stories but images as well, and the history of the town of Clymer ...

A painting with a winding history of theft, confiscation and diplomatic dispute is on public view again after decades. Its owner says Rembrandt made the work himself, but some experts aren’t convinced ...

The Smithsonian Institute commissioned a portrait of Oprah Winfrey in recognition of her "significant contributions to American popular culture" Oprah Winfrey is now on display at the National ...