A hidden face recently uncovered in a 1789 Joshua Reynolds painting proves the devil is in the details. In "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort," Reynolds included a demon-like face lurking behind the ...

click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789 ... In the life-size painting that Savage completed ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to ...

Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today ...

The document, which was sold to an anonymous bidder at an auction in North Carolina, was among the first copies of the ...

The 1789 artwork has now been put back on display ... National Trust The full painting shows Lords Warwick and Salisbury and King Henry VI at Cardinal Beaufort's bedside It was based on a scene ...

The grand octagonal square will become an outdoor art gallery as part of the public programming for Art Basel Paris.

A rare copy of the United States Constitution, printed after the 1787 Constitutional Convention, has sold for more than $11 ...

We are entering the season of the avant-garde, of audacious abstract paintings, of compelling conceptual sculptures and all manner of artworks that address the issues of our era. The city-spanning ...

Saffronart’s contemporary south asian sale ( 21st – 22nd 0ctober ) of 55 lots raises a toast to some of the finest names in ...

Every state has a capitol building that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US capitol, but ...