The Met examines court portraiture in a time of strife for a powerful Italian Renaissance dynasty
Face to Face
A regional museum in western Maryland revisits the work of the early American portraitist Joshua Johnson
New Light: Blyth Spirits
More Benjamin Blyth portraits in oils
Agent Provocateur
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art charts the influence of critic and collector Félix Fénéon through the work of the early modern artists he championed
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels
Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore
Glazing points
A pair of reverse-painting-on-glass miniatures offers new insights into the work of early American portrait artist Benjamin Greenleaf
Ralph D. Curtis: A nineteenth-century folk artist identified
November 2009 | In 1973 at an auction in Ellenville, New York, an early nineteenth-century portrait of a woman wearing a lace bonnet, holding a red book, and seated in a high-back chair sold for what was then an unusually high price of nine thousand dollars. The picture, painted on tulipwood, was unsigned and is believed to have come from …