Van Gogh suggested they trade pictures. The painting Van Gogh received was historic. Entitled Les Miserables, it was a self-portrait of Gauguin, and included the profile of their friend Emile Bernard.

But her son King Charles III’s first official portrait since his coronation might not have been what they had in mind. On social media, the aggressively red 8.5- by 6.5-foot painting was ...

With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and ...

Sometimes it’s a tango; sometimes it’s a tangle. Both are represented in this collection of 25 portraits. We asked photographers and journalists to share their recollections from some of the ...

While Vermeer enjoyed decent cash flow from the sale of his art during his life ... the musician on the far left is a possible self-portrait. It also bears Vermeer’s signature.

Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr Gachet (June 1890), which is among his greatest paintings, finally seems to have been tracked down. It was last seen in 1990, when it sold for $82.5m, making it then ...

Art historians, in truth, have not come to many conclusions about this elusive portrait. Centuries after northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck painted Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini ...