Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...

As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg’s installations visualize fabric as gestural, ...

Lethière’s talent as a painter of portraits of the rich and famous, landscapes, and scenes from history won him plum academic posts and a place at the center of Creole society. But in the two ...

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th or 19th century, work the Getty’s ...

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

DREWEATTS is to offer a historic painting of Englefield House (in Berkshire), which shows the owner of the house Powlett Wrighte (the younger), standing in front of it in the mid-18th century.

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist ... the time to diagnose medical conditions. In ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Silhouettes have been around for as long as there have been people to draw them. Early animal images on cave walls might have ...