A striking Picasso portrait is set to go under the hammer in Paris this Friday, having remained unseen for over eight decades. The vibrant artwork, titled Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora ...

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 ...

A well-shot portrait is an amazing thing: it can reveal hidden depths of personality and convey layers upon layers of emotional complexity. This video tries to get to the bottom of what makes the ...