Portraits in Art

The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy Strongs popular intro...

Master painting lively figures and private portraits, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.Bestselling artist and author Hazel Soa...

Accompanying a major exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale presents the work of the remarkable sev...

The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is one of Britains most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the w...

This book explores various techniques, sources of inspiration, and creative processes that bring to life the unique visual expressions of portrait ...

Explore 500 years of the British royal family and how their portrayal has developed throughout the ages through beautiful artworks from the Nationa...

The faces on a wall in this book are Northamptonshires captains since 1878, whose portraits appear together in the pavilion at Wantage Road. An ast...

What were the real life stories and legacies of the six women who married Henry VIII? Discover these extraordinary queens through the court cultur...

This latest volume in The Mets acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and culturesfrom funerary masks to real...

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full a...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautifu...

Frank Auerbach: The Sitters provides a comprehensive overview of the artists portraiture. It reveals the special connection between the artist and ...

'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKERThis inspiring collection of i...

A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe In this sumptuously illustrated volume...

The Artist's Guide to the Anatomy of the Human Head is a comprehensive manual for artists designed to help them understand and accurately portray t...

Th is book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézannes portraiture practice, i...

Beautiful, elaborate, fierce, grotesque or elegant, masks are extraordinary objects that demonstrate the creative skills and aesthetics of many dif...

Families come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, sing...

The portrait has been characterized as an art-form of contradictions since its very beginnings to the art of today. The genre is faced with the cha...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

An eye-opening presentation of largely unknown figurative drawings by a renowned pioneer of abstraction Featuring one hundred figurative works on p...

Erstmals wird hier die Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Loth...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were ma...

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's ful...