Reynolds was particularly skilled at choosing poses and actions which suggested a sitter's character and which also created a strong composition. Here, three sisters, the daughters of the 2nd Earl ...

The American photographer Lee Miller first met Pablo Picasso in June 1937, a couple of months before this portrait was painted during a stay in the south of France. Miller is shown dressed in the ...

James was first painted by Trevisani in 1719 shortly before he left for Spain to prepare for the abortive invasion of England. The portrait was intended as a gift for his bride-to-be, Princess Maria ...

In 1985 Warhol became the first artist commissioned to create a portrait of the Absolut Vodka bottle in what would become one of the most successful advertising campaigns of the twentieth century.

I agree to the image licensing terms and conditions* (required) Charles Dodgson was an Oxford academic in the fields of mathematics and logic. He is known to us as Lewis Carroll, the author of ...

Arabella was the only daughter of Lord Darnley's younger brother, Charles, and a first cousin of King James VI. She was at first treated kindly by the king, but in 1610 she secretly married William ...

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This is an early and important work in Delvaux's dream-landscape style. There is a deliberate conflict between the eroticism of the nudes and the uninviting setting into which they have been cast.

These remarkable panels formed part of what must have been the most important altarpiece commissioned for Scotland. Incredibly, they survived the Reformation when so many religious images were ...