By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life ... While most of the portraits on view at the AGO don’t depict specific women, Newton’s face appears again and again.

(JTA) — More than 50 years after she became the first woman to be ordained ... recently began displaying a portrait of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the 19th-century rabbi who founded the seminary ...

Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry, a wealthy Creole land owner, posed for Louisiana’s first significant portrait painter, José ...