Men dominated the art world for hundreds of years. Any list of the world’s most famous paintings or influential artists abounds with men, with perhaps one or two women making the cut. However, that’s ...

In February 1803 the Monthly Magazine offered a backhanded endorsement of women artists in its regular ‘Retrospect of Fine Arts’: ‘In an age so generally marked by the frivolity and dissipation of our ...

The letter was a somewhat indiscreet one for a young matron to write a middle-aged widower—especially when the widower was the eminent Thomas Jefferson, U.S. minister to the court of Louis XVI.

When it comes to the idolizers and detractors of Thomas Jefferson, the historian Gordon Wood makes a trenchant point: “We Americans make a great mistake in idolizing . . . and making symbols of ...

28.4 x 22 cm. (11.2 x 8.7 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

The Royal Academy’s first president, Joshua Reynolds, was considered the leading portrait painter of his day and a key figure in the Academy. Still in print today, and widely translated, his ...

Down the aisle: the Bennet sisters in the 2005 film adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' She needed to be a certain sort of woman of course. And I hesitated at first to depict her independence so ...

Three women, half-length, standing. If of the Loftus family (as the lettering states), one might be Anna Maria Loftus (née Dashwood) (1785-1857), wife of John Loftus, 2nd Marquis of Ely in the Irish ...

Over 300 years ago Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughter, Dorothea (1678–1743), boarded a ship and began a remarkable adventure together. Born into an artistic German family, Merian was a pioneering ...

21.3 x 13.5 cm. (8.4 x 5.3 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...