The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look ...

"Through literature, dress, and portraiture, these men used the visual codes of ... one interpretation of these 18th-century portraits of Black individuals sees them as a record of their lives ...

THE eighteenth century gave birth to some remarkably interesting ... In science, the Midland men of fame include Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin. The spirit of inquiry of the age, with its ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French ... Like Cumberlidge, both men spent many years working ...

Valued at £50m, Portrait of Mai by Sir Joshua Reynolds is on show at the city's Cartwright Hall, in Manningham. The painting, ...

A portrait by one of the 18th century's best artists is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The artwork was created in 1766 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and is of a woman called Letitia Sparrow.

Florida’s Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg has made an exciting discovery about a portrait long part of its collection: the work, previously believed to be by the British painter Francis Cotes ...

The restoration brought out details including the expressions on the faces of the men in the background ... the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously difficult ...

The genre emerged in what is now Mexico, and to a lesser extent Peru, in the 18th Century. Created in series, with an occasional multi-image single panel, the paintings were intended to illustrate ...

The four portraits of the Quayle family includes the 18th Century politician who was famous for owning the world's oldest yacht, the Peggy. Manx National Heritage (MNH) acquired the collection at ...