Portraits in Art

In Sketch Appeal: The Art of Self-Love, you will discover how drawing your portrait is an effective medium to explore and express your true self.Fr...

A poignant look into the psychological depths of the human mindits possibilities and fragility. This is the impressive and sensitive legacy of the ...

Dear Scotland was first performed as a promenade piece of theatre by the National Theatre of Scotland on 24 April 2014 at the Scottish National Por...

TEXTURES synthesises research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. A fraught to...

With just under a thousand portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the National Portrait Gallery boasts some of the most treasured and famous official por...

The National Portrait Gallerys collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gal...

Blind Willie Johnson. Willie Dixon. Ma Rainey. We know their music, and of course we recognise their names, but to their fans the faces of these bl...

Virginia Woolfs many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacobs Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), ...

To coincide with the bicentenary of Jane Austens death ( and her appearance on English banknotes ) in ...

This beautifully illustrated volume showcases over 70 exquisite pieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art's internationally important collection of B...

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the...

...perhaps the definitive tome on her life and career. - Nena Hawke, BlackBook ...an important new monograph about Alice Neel, one of the great...

Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appeali...

Explores new approaches to portraying identity and the human face and figure, through works from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery''s colle...

Sargent's portraits in charcoal constitute a gallery of the great and the good and the talented, scarcely less remarkable in its range of personali...

Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an unusual collective of yo...

Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists, musicians, historica...

In 2016 and 2017, Diana Widmaier-Picasso curated two exhibitions for Gagosian: the first gathered works from the collection of her mother, Maya Rui...

Victoria Crowe is one of the world''s most vital and original figurative painters. Her instantly recognisable work is represented in a large number...