The painting, which dates from 1779, shows two young women dressed in the finest clothes of the age. However, one is an aristocratic white-skinned girl in a pink dress and the other is a mixed ...

In the summer of 1553, a girl of around 16 was proclaimed the queen of England. Her name was Lady Jane Grey, and she ruled ...

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...