Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting Blue Boy inspired 21st century painter Kehinde Wiley, and they're being shown across from each other at the Huntington Art Museum near Los Angeles.

The Uffizi in Florence, home to masterpieces like Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and Caravaggio’s “Medusa,” is cracking ...

A detail of the 18th-century group portrait, featuring an unknown Black child with Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art ...

Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinThe subject of this 18th-century portrait is an already established citizen who can afford the latest style of dress and a flowing wig. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.

The Roch Aza portrait is but one example of how this genre of well-dressed Black men emerged in art, and it is around a dozen paintings, alongside fashions, works on paper, historical and ...

In science, the Midland men of fame include Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin. The spirit of inquiry of the age, with its zest for experiment, led Wedgwood to convert his manufactory into an ...

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.

George Quayle, an 18th Century politician, was famous for owning the world's oldest yacht, ... Portrait of historical 18th Century figure returns to Isle of Man. Published. 10 November 2023. Share.