These weren’t fine oil paintings, all pomp and propaganda ... These play-miniatures were produced in some numbers but, by the 19th century, small portraits were mass-produced, accessible ...

displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th century art. The half-length portrait shows Jones in his ecclesiastical robes, with Bible in hand. Its style is simple; yet it is ...

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... was to preserve in oil paint the view about to be destroyed by the forthcoming construction of ...

The artist who painted this portrait remained unknown. This 19th century oil painting on a wooden panel acquired its name from Mrs C. Flower of the Flower family, who donated the portrait to the ...

Wise’s portrait is an oil painting on canvas ... birth name Thoc-me-tony, a 19th-century advocate for Native American rights. Wise was also a pioneer in the Reform movement, allowing mixed ...