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 ...

Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Jane Spencer, three-quarter length, wearing a silver coloured dress and blue wrap, standing in a landscape, Early 18th Century Oil on canvas ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

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, ...

The tiny drawing by artist George Romney depicts Henrietta, Countess of Warwick. It will be sold at an upcoming auction in London Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Last year, a dumpster diver in ...

A Rhodes scholar urged a renowned Oxford college to remove an 18th century portrait because it was 'racist and dehumanising', it is claimed. Dr Alexander von Klemperer was a PhD student at Oriel ...

One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ...