A rare oil portrait of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi - painted in 1931 in the UK - will be auctioned in London next month. Gandhi led a non-violent resistance movement against British rule ...

Back in 2003 the Geffrye Museum staged a delightful two-part exhibition entitled Home and Garden, subtitled Paintings and Drawings of English, Middle-Class, Urban Domestic Spaces. Part 1 looked at ...

Comic legend Ken Dodd has unveiled his first portrait at the National Portrait Gallery - declaring: "It's a bit of a puzzle." The entertainer has been captured backstage, looking exhausted, after ...

J. M.W. Turner didn’t just use oil paints to make his masterpieces. He used charcoal and watercolors, too. Also spit. Bits of dust. And far more tenuous things — smoke and air, clouds and ...

The story behind the NGV’s ‘sad sheep painting’ and its mysterious artist. ... And yet one of the most popular works is a 140-year-old kitschy oil painting by an artist whom history has ...

Honan, a 19-year-old artist from Ireland, first started drawing and painting Jane Does in early 2014. She told The Daily Dot that she initially got the idea while drawing a woman on death row.

Painter Margaret Keane has died from heart failure at the age of 94. She’s best known for her Sad-Eyed Waifs paintings and for inspiring the film ‘Big Eyes’ starring Amy Adams.

Since leaving the White House, Mr. Bush has kept a low profile and, New York Magazine reported last year, has "taken up painting, making portraits of dogs and arid Texas landscapes." Below is Mr ...

This discovery is fascinating, casting new light on Turner's early career, and showing astonishing confidence and competence in oil painting at such a young age. 'It was mistaken in the literature for ...