This portrait thus suggests how the signs of elite status were displayed not only upon the bodies of those of Spanish or European heritage ... considerable social and economic privilege in the 18th ...

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...

It will be sold at an upcoming auction in London Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and ...

The distinctive sketch was stumbled upon by an antiques enthusiast A rare pen and ink sketch by a leading 18th-century British portrait artist has been discovered by chance in a wheelie bin in the US.

Deborah Oropallo is an American artist best known for her digital montages. Morphing 17th and 18th-century European portraits with contemporary fashion images, Oropallo produces works which conflate ...

David Pullins, a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de ...

The rediscovery was included in the “Old Master, British, and European Pictures ... Romney was one of the leading society portrait painters of 18th-century Britain and his paintings are ...