A portrait once attributed to Corneille de Lyon fetched $2.3 million at Sotheby's, baffling Old Masters experts.

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, and sports jerseys. She gained international attention for her album ...

The underlying image in René Magritte's "La cinquième saison" (1943) (photo courtesy Royal Museum of Fine Arts) A team of researchers has discovered the face of a woman peering out from beneath ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Michael Jilg, a Hays artist, painted an 8-foot-by-8-foot portrait of President Washington 50 years ago for the country's bicentennial celebration. After spending some time outside in front of the ...

Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the ...