The paintings have replaced portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. The portrait of the late Tudor monarch, painted around 1592 by the Flemish artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ...
He dreamed of becoming an icon painter, but became famous for his vivid images of peasant women and portraits of Lenin and ...
Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative ...
The Fayum mummy portrait depicts a wealthy woman who lived and died in Ptolemaic Egypt around 2,000 years ago.
In real life, Diana wore an emerald green gown with very 1980s puffed sleeves and bow trim for her official engagement ...
A DUP MLA has said it’s a case of “another day, another scandal” for Sinn Fein after one of its Assembly workers quit over ...
An exhibition is being planned on portraits of Van Gogh’s closest friend in Provence: the postman Joseph Roulin. Proudly ...
Adam Dressner, a lawyer turned portrait artist ... experienced the strange sensation of mingling in the crowd with the paintings’ subjects. One of the models, Mr. Love, a 91-year-old music ...
Both Elizabeth I and Raleigh have been criticised over their links to the slave trade. The artwork of Elizabeth I that has ...
The National Portrait Gallery announces its forward programme of exhibitions for 2025, featuring various anticipated ...