Like the historic Lansdowne painting of Washington, Obama’s portrait is rife with symbolism. But where Gilbert Stuart flirts with the splendors of the office of the President, Wiley alludes to the ...

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, ...

In 1527, renowned Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger completed his portrait of the martyred chancellor of England, one of the world’s most inspiring and revered paintings — Portrait of Sir ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump is unhappy about a portrait of himself hanging up in the Colorado state house and has called for the governor of the state, Jared Polis (D) to take it down. He shared his ...

It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...