Portraiture was on the rise during the Northern Renaissance due to the changing art market. This allowed people to present themselves in a way that sent covert signals of who they were within society.

How were they trained, why was portraiture such a critical component of their success, and who were they? Although the path of artists in Renaissance Europe from assistants to masters was lengthy ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...