Shelburne Museum, Vermont / Bridgeman Images (2) When William Matthew Prior (1806-1873) painted Nancy Lawson in 1843, the Maine artist relied on familiar signifiers to portray a woman of wealth ...

By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life ... While most of the portraits on view at the AGO don’t depict specific women, Newton’s face appears again and again.

You can now view the "Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children" in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)'s American art ...

The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...