click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age ... supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question ...

Meet William Mumler, the amateur chemist who stumbled into spirit photography and pioneered an entire industry, in this ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

the 19th century teacher and abolitionist. A humble man who considered himself homely, he once declined a request to sit for a portrait by saying, "O no, no, my ugly face shall not go down to ...

It was a man's world in Paris on Monday night, as the Société des Amis du Musée d'Orsay held its annual fundraising gala ...

Gift from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation will fund a new curatorial position to oversee the collection, maintain the works, ...

Painting of Korneli Szlegel from the 19th century ... man not merely mud / Of mud man is created / Nobody can avoid death / We make mud out of earth / Earth is like mud / And so we should strive / to ...

Sir Keir admitted last month he asked for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to ... four separate terms totalling 12 years in the late 19th Century, was also responsible for major progressive reforms ...

Assouline latest, Fifth Avenue, makes for the perfect holiday present this year. The luxurious book follows the history of ...

The symptoms of this mania were startling: fans were so obsessed that they wore his portrait on brooches ... Up until the beginning of the 19th century, classical music had been a mostly civilised art ...

A mountain man loses his connection to nature in this strange but stunning portrait of modernity set in the shadow of the ...

The Lindley Filters in Warsaw are a unique example of late 19th-century ... the man to decide about the creation of the Warsaw Filters was Russian and the man to build them was an Englishman – Willam ...