Where portraits were once reserved for the mighty few, these days, Kazanjian says, the form “has been democratized and anybody is full-length material.” Although paintings are at the center of ...

The surviving oil-on-canvas study shows ... by the Houses of Parliament to paint Churchill to mark his 80th birthday in 1954. The full-length portrait was unveiled in Parliament that year, with ...

An exhibition of portraits by Y.Z. Kami ... depending upon the medium (oil sketch or full oil painting) and the size of the artwork (full length, three-quarter-length, half-figure, head and ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil ... Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC) at CyI pieced together the full, buried ...

When oil painter Richard Abraham ... about 25 years ago toward oil painting — he was still fascinated by Hollywood’s Golden Age. Emotional, close-up portraits of vintage movie actors comprise ...

An artist's beautiful oil painting capturing her eldest grandchild's curiosity has won the Living Arts Space Small Portrait ...

Here, in a chapter by the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb, we hear about Katherine Parr, whose portrait was the first full-length painting of an English queen. Extract from Six Lives: The Stories ...

The National Portrait ... three known full-length renderings of the 16th president and will be on loan to the Smithsonian gallery in downtown D.C. for the next five years. The painting, which ...