In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

The Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France has been commissioned to restore the 1779 painting from the ...

Donald Trump hangs his mugshot in the Oval Office, a bold move marking his unique place in presidential history. Explore the ...

It is often suggested that historical portraits avoided smiles because of poor dental hygiene, but in reality, social ...

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

Well, Oscar Wilde did moot that life imitates art, rather than the other way round. So it seems only fitting that two years ...

Victoria Siddall, now in one of art’s most prestigious jobs, talks balancing family, work and the environmental impact of ...

It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...

Gilbert Stuart, Lansdowne portrait (George Washington), 1796 ... And as recently as 2018, Barack Obama’s official painting in the gallery shows the former president openly facing the viewer ...