A highly talked about painting will remain in the UK following a temporary stop to prevent it from leaving the country. The painting — which was created by an unknown artist — depicts the portraits of ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...

Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum. In ...

Around the turn of the 17th century, the Dutch artist Johanna Koerten sold a “sublime work consisting of flowers, arms, eagles [and] crowns, decorated in foliage, of woven silk in a rustic manner,” to ...

Conservators found that a portrait of aristocrat Diana Cecil had been modified to have larger lips and a smaller forehead long after the original was completed. English Heritage’s paintings ...

After nearly 200 years in a private collection, a pair of small portraits by 17th century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn went on display Wednesday after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national ...

Police are appealing for information on how two original paintings from 17th century European artists, ended up in a roadside dumpster in southeast Germany. Police are appealing for information on how ...

For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there. Now, ...

Someone had plumped the lips and thickened the curls of British noblewoman Diana Cecil, who was considered a natural beauty in her day. English Heritage’s paintings expert Alice Tate-Harte finishes ...

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s ...

Portrait of a Woman in Red, 1620, by Marcus Gheeraerts II Curator Karen Hearn has been thinking about this subject "on and off" for more than 20 years. The exhibition focuses mostly on British artwork ...

A tattoo on the wrist of a wealthy merchant in a 17th-century group portrait is the only one ever found in depictions from that era and may well be the oldest in Dutch painting, experts from the ...