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Portraits
US National Portrait Gallery unveils painting of Oprah Winfrey
The portrait, showing the influential media personality in a striking purple dress, was painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren
Former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter's portrait goes on view at National Portrait Gallery
The pastel double-portrait of President Jimmy Carter's recently deceased wife was drawn by Robert Clark Templeton
Defeated French general or noble Parliamentarian? Theresa May portrait divides opinion
The £28,000 portrait of the MP for Maidenhead will hang in Portcullis House
Harry styles it out over comedian's cheeky portrait
Joe Lycett sells his painting to the former One Direction frontman for '£6 and a chunky peanut butter Kit Kat'
He’s a natural—David Attenborough picture is star of the show at Royal Society portrait display
Best in show? Exhibition of dog paw-traits opens at London’s Wallace Collection
The show includes works by Leonardo and David Hockney, as well as a painting that Queen Victoria was “enamoured by”
Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission
The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery
New series of obscured portraits honour Afghan interpreters’ service in the fight against the Taliban
Photographs by former British army officer Andy Barnham capture the lives of the translators whilst hiding their identity from Afghanistan's extremist rulers
New shows reveal how Picasso was inspired by the Old Masters
Plus, Chris Levine's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; and a rise in political interference in museum leadership
A new visual history of domestic service spanning 400 years examines the lives of those working within the home
From drawings and paintings by Dürer and Velázquez to lesser known images, book puts servants and slaves centre stage
We know Van Gogh’s face from his self-portraits, but how did his friends see him?
Other views of Vincent, captured by his fellow artists, reproduced together online for the first time
Exhibition explores the many faces of Elizabeth I and her fellow Tudors
The show of portraits at the Holburne Museum in Bath charts the reign of the Tudor monarchs and their subjects
Van Dyck's greatest portraits as an opera in four acts
This elegant and suggestively written monograph is the fruit of 70 years’ reflections on the Flemish artist’s portraiture
Van Gogh’s self-portraits: what do they really reveal?
An exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery will be the most comprehensive ever held of Vincent's paintings of himself
Divine People: first biography of Ambrose McEvoy reveals how portrait artist became a darling of London and New York society a century ago
The typescript of Eric Chilston's book, based on primary sources and eye-witness accounts, was rediscovered in 2018 after being thought lost for nearly 40 years
Shipwrecked, disinherited, imprisoned, accused of being a Gunpowder Plotter: Tudor adventurer’s portrait hits the block
Portrait thought to be of Thomas Arundell is to be auctioned at Woolley & Wallis this week
National Trust for Historic Preservation supports removal of Confederate statues that glorify white power
Trust says such monuments “do not reflect, and are in fact abhorrent to, our values”
San Diego artist wins top prize in US portrait competition with immigration-themed animation
Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald
In Pictures: Helene Schjerfbeck’s self-portraits and the evolution of her singular style
The Royal Academy of Arts' assistant curator Rebecca Bray talks us through five of the Finnish artist’s key works
Children’s portraits without shadows: new book on painting childhood
No Chucky or Lord of the Flies in portraits by British and British-based artists
Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
Long-neglected portraits by Cézanne arrive in the d'Orsay
This will be the first exhibition dedicated to the great master's portraits since 1910
When Irving Penn forced his way into a meeting with Picasso: MoMA's new retrospective on the iconic photographer
Costume play and urban decay through the lens of the master
The deeply educated John Singer Sargent
The painter’s portraits of his diverse circle of polymathic friends
Collector Robbie Antonio sits for 12 portraits (so far)
Kenny Scharf, Marilyn Minter, David LaChapelle and Julian Opie have all painted Antonio, and Takashi Murakami is in his sights
Books: Isabella d’Este's hunt for a Leonardo painting
Isabella d’Este was not satisfied with an objet d’art and a drawing; she was determined to have Leonardo da Vinci paint her portrait
Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us
Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.
A true icon: Pietro Annigoni’s 1955 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth
New insights into Leonardo's only portrait of a male sitter
The music depicted in Portrait of a Musician, 1485-88, currently on loan to the National Gallery, London, may have been composed by the artist
Tate's Van Dyck show on rocky ground as insurance obstacle may detain several works
Five iconic portraits may not be loaned to the exhibition due to legal anomaly