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Dreweatts is to offer a historic painting of Englefield House (in Berkshire), which shows the owner of the house Powlett Wrighte (the younger), standing in front of it in the mid-18th century.
It begins with lesser-known 18th-century works and moves on to the impressionism and modernism movements, which include more well-known artists such as Monet, Van Gogh and Picasso. The 18th-century ...
The painting had to be taken away to be repaired, as it was luckily found that the damage caused was minor. It's believed ...
At the Davis Museum, it now hangs in a bright red room, in conversation with a small Spanish Baroque devotional painting; 18th- and 19th-century ivory fragments from what were once statues of ...
An 18th-century oil painting stolen by mobsters from a New Jersey home in the 1960s has been returned to the rightful owner after the work's whereabouts were unknown for decades, ...
Currently on view in the project room at ART 3 in Bushwick are a half-dozen canvases by Deborah Brown, consisting of figures, some based literally, others emblematically, on the portrait styles of ...
A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti’s 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap. Giacomo Ceruti, “Two Beggars,” circa 1735-40, oil on canvas.
Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala's Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th-Century Painting. Story by Emi Eleode • 1w. A young Black boy, wearing deep red livery with gold trimming, ...
A missing masterpiece of 18th-century painting, lost for more than 100 years, has apparently been hanging in a Los Angeles home since the mid-1950s. Nicknamed “Española” — Spanish girl ...
The painting, which measures roughly 5 feet by 7 feet, captures a scene from the series of history plays by Shakespeare set during the life of King Henry VI, who succeeded to the thrones of ...
An art appraiser in Utah made the discovery after she noticed that the painting looked eerily similar to one created by John Opie in 1784 called The School Mistress.
An 18th-century painting confiscated from a Warsaw museum during the Nazi occupation will be returned to Poland by the U.S. government, officials said Wednesday, just days before the release of a ...