The portraits of Edvard Munch contain hidden psychological depths. Here's our pick of the top five masterpieces in a new show ...

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits ... century over which portrait had most accurately recorded him for posterity. It is no surprise, then, that presidential portraiture ...

Antique (or antique-inspired) portraits bring so much ... curator of 19th-century collections and the National Portrait Gallery, told the Wall Street Journal. “Actually smiling [in a portrait ...

Those pages muscled their way into your psyche, which is why so many of the photographs at the new National Portrait Gallery show The ... It is the pomp of 17th-century European monarchs rendered ...

In a bid to expand its holding of historical art by women, Luxembourg’s National Museum of History and Art has acquired three works by the 18th century French portrait painter Monique Daniche.

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society ... the collections of such important institutions as the National Portrait ...

The presidential portraits aren't alone, though, as the National Portrait Gallery also houses artistic renderings of notable American citizens ranging from sports figures to civil rights leaders.