Take a closer look at this original oil painting portrait and the details that bring the subject to life. A simple glimpse ...

In the probable van Eyck self-portrait, further elements of the attire are identifiable. The figure wears a “houppelande,” a ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...

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 ...

Around 2014, in his apartment in Harlem, a former real estate agent named Jeffrey Ventura Morell installed a large portrait of an 18th-century gentleman in his kitchen — right above his dishwasher, ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

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 ...

TERAVARNA announces 489 winners from 42 countries in its 13th Portrait Competition, awarding cash prizes, VR showcases, ...