"Portraits have the power to stop time and reveal something essential about who we are," says Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, editor ...

The prints were often purchased by tourists, autograph collectors or lawyers who sought the items as collectibles. 1904 The court portrait is, in some ways, pedestrian.

A new exhibition exploring the experiences and contributions of people who moved to Britain and made it their permanent or ...

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

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of ...

On May 23, the National Portrait Gallery will display “Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives.” The museum’s vast collection of Civil War-era portrait ...

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has unveiled his Freddie Mercury portrait with signed prints now on sale with some profits going towards the Queen singer's charity.

Holbein’s workshop produced a second sequence of portraits of a visibly older Erasmus around 1530, including this previously unknown panel painting, which was recently authenticated.

Portraits in the impressive whole-plate format—measuring 8.5 × 6.5 inches—were among the premier offerings of the nation’s leading photographic studios. Drawing on the National Portrait Gallery’s ...