The painting shows Englefield as it was in the mid-18th century, most likely around 1760 ... British and European Art sale this week (October 9).

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

The Basohli Painting is a traditional art form finding its origin in the Basohli area of Jammu region. This art form is known ...

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist Franz Christoph Janneck, in which an alchemist ...

reflecting both its art-historical importance and its extraordinary story.” Romney was one of the leading society portrait painters of 18th-century Britain and his paintings are held in a great ...

As for the detailed findings of the conservation, the pigments indicate that the painting is likely late 17th or early 18th century, which dates it to the lifetimes of both the Duke of Marlborough ...

Angelika Kauffmann was an Austrian painter best known for her Neoclassical portraits of 18th-century British high society and historical paintings. Born on October 30, 1741 in Graubünden, Switzerland, ...

After his death in 1894, one year after A.J. Drexel’s, his wife donated a series of important clocks and watches to Drexel—including the David Rittenhouse 18th century Astronomical ... including ...

By comparison, our 17th- and 18th-century French collection ... in this gift in terms of art historical significance? Bowyer curated “French Neoclassical Paintings from The Horvitz Collection ...