The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum houses four paintings by Dutch masters that represent a variety of portraiture styles of ...

15 x 12.5 cm. (5.9 x 4.9 in.) ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...

All the roads here are named after Golden Age painters (some even display the artists’ self-portraits), while architecture ...

What makes a perfect stately home? Our expert considers the necessary ingredients, with a little help from the 12th Duke of ...

The 17th century was the zenith of painting, in the Netherlands. In no other era were artists so productive. Never before had so many painters tried to make a living from their art. Demand was huge.

12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.) ...

Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio ...

John Singer Sargent made his name as the preeminent portrait of Edwardian England’s wealthy. The Wertheimer family took a ...

She channels Rembrandt’s “exotic” imaginary princes in an early ... still recognisably hers despite its subdued tones. In a 1952 self-portrait she hovers at the edge of the frame, her face blurred, ...