I stood in line for a couple of hours to see the Obama portraits six months after they went on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. This was a few years ago. There were people in ...

I AM going to ramble as an old man and tell some of the things which in these days may seem quaint or amusing, and which will lead to some of the mild adventures of a portrait painter. In the ...

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 ...

Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

Artists Wiley and Sherald have been commissioned to paint the Obamas’ portraits. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to deliver remarks after her portrait was presented, April 24, 2006, at the ...

As we saw recently with all that amazing art painted from rear-window grime, true artists can create masterpieces using just about any tool. In the first video below, David Kassan paints quite a ...