A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert…
Browsing: 19th century
The National Gallery in London acquires Sir Thomas Lawrence’s famed portrait of Charles William Lambton, widely known as Red Boy . The institution has committed to buying the work from…
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC announced that it had received a gift of 161 photographs. The donation includes rare 19th century photographs…
Munich’s Neue Pinakothek, one of Bavaria’s state-run galleries, told that the painting, Fischerboote bei Frauenchiemsee (1884) by Austrian painter Joseph Wopfner was bought by Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann in…
Almost 200 photos by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), one of the inventors of the medium, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York next month. The collection, which will be…
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, a new museum, will not exhibit its renowned collection of Benin Bronzes and instead will begin the process of repatriating them. According to…
Nationalmuseum has acquired an exceptional floral still life by the French artist Antoine Berjon, who in 1800 was one of the true stars of the French art…
The Chrysler Museum of Art transports art lovers to the 19th and early 20th centuries and highlights the impact of Spanish art and culture on American painters with…
Paul Cézanne, the famed Post-Impressionist who painted a range of subjects in natural and domestic spaces, may now rank among the most celebrated artists of the…
The [Franco-Prussian] war, the siege, the Commune, perhaps the sense of powerlessness against it all, had led Rosa to start thinking about more ferocious predators. Lions…