Arts University Bournemouth student Tia Mirza presented her painting to Sadiq Khan at City Hall.

For the first time in history, all of Van Eyck’s surviving portraits—nearly half of his entire known output—will be displayed together at London’s National Gallery. Jan van Eyck, Margaret, the ...

I thought this commission would be straightforward. But my sitter’s response made me question my own attitude to my looks and body image ...

In the coming robot world takeover, the art world won’t be spared. There are already plenty of signs of intelligent machines encroaching on the roles of human artists. Take Google Deep Dream’s ...

The Modigliani painting "Nu assis au collier" (Seated Nude Wearing a Necklace) sold for $63.9 million, the highest price achieved for a work by the artist sold at auction in Europe, Sotheby's said.

Portrait of a Canon Regular (1552) depicts an unidentified clergy member. Robert Simon Fine Art A long-lost painting by Sofonisba Anguissola—one of the few famous women artists of the Renaissance—has ...

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

Gustav Klimt’s sumptuously romantic masterpiece 1916-7 Bildnis einer Frau (Portrait of a Lady), bought by the famous Italian art patron Guiseppe Ricci Oddi eight years after it was completed, in 1925, ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She ...

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 ...