The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

See pictures and our review of National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C..

Few people knew former President George W. Bush enjoyed the hobby of painting. But at his presidential library in Dallas, some 30 portraits of world leaders can be seen in a gallery. Click on to ...