Portraits

American artist John Darley worked diligently to become the accomplished painter he is today.

The Tudor monarchs, via their art, are on a year-long royal progress of the United States with the ...

From a pitch-dark background emerge the faces of a man and a woman, facing each other with hands ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been offered the gift of his own likeness some 17 times since becoming ...

The tradition of presidential portraits is as old as the office of the American presidency itself. Beginning with ...

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; —Christina Rossetti, poet, from ...

NEW YORK—I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum’s ongoing exhibition “In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces.”  As I was just about to leave, ...

NEW YORK—As the saying goes, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." For visual ...

For Bev Tosh, it began as a labour of love: creating a portrait of her mother as a 1940s ...

NEW YORK—Best known for his religious and genre paintings of street urchins, the Golden Age Spanish master, Bartolomé ...

NEW YORK—Social media existed long ago. During the Renaissance, you could view someone's profile and carry it with you ...

Could you draw someone in a few minutes while between stations on the Tube? That's what illustrator Spike ...

Here is a look at six women and how their images were shaped by their political and social ...