After losing his mother to cancer as a child, 16-year-old Hugh Saetia now paints portraits for families mourning loved ones ...

Creating a realistic portrait inspired by John Singer Sargent, this video emphasizes observation, simplification, and ...

The Northern Renaissance painter's innovative techniques altered the course of art history. An upcoming exhibition in London ...

London’s National Gallery is uniting all of Flemish Old Master Jan van Eyck’s known portraits in one landmark exhibition this ...

Analyzing a portrait painting in the spirit of John Singer Sargent, this video demonstrates how careful planning supports expressive freedom. The focus remains on tonal structure and edge variation.

Lucas Zwirner faces to the side in a swirl of pigment washes of purple and blue. When Elizabeth Peyton’s painting of her friend, the heir-apparent to the Zwirner gallery empire, debuted at Art Basel ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.

Off with her head? Painting in National Portrait Gallery’s collection may have been important political tool to shore-up ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

Amir H. Fallah, “Remember My Child, Nowhere Is Safe” (2020), acrylic on canvas, 96 x 72 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Shulamit Nazarian) LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to paint ...

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s signature triennial portrait exhibition has made the move from Kahului to Oʻahu for a ...