A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, a microsite featuring new research and digitized images for 1,800 cut-paper silhouettes by ...

About 1,800 19th-century silhouette portraits made by a traveling artist named William Bache are included in a book the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has digitized and made available ...

With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, comparing artistic paintings with early photographs to reveal how beauty ideals were ...

Ewa Juszkiewicz’s painting, based on an early 19th-century portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier by Louis-Léopold Boilly, utilises the strategy of appropriating a historical image and ...

How a 19th-Century portrait of Abraham Lincoln was later revealed to be a ... One publisher in Ohio issued about 50 portraits of Union military heroes, ... "In the early part of his career, ...

This image shows an early 20th century Florence Harris reproduction of a 19th century George Catlin painting, “Portrait of a Kickapoo man, Ahtonwetuk” at the Smithsonian Institution in ...

Nineteenth-century craftspeople made do with what they had. In Denmark, they had beer leftovers. ... But those very proteins sit in the canvases of paintings from early 19th century Denmark.

How a 19th-Century portrait of Abraham Lincoln was later revealed to be a fake. 14 March 2024. ... According to The New York Times, "In the early months of his presidency, ...