ReviewBooks
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
NewsAuctions
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
NewsProtests
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”
NewsArtists
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
ReviewBook Shorts
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
InterviewPainting
Liu Xiaodong: an interview with China’s great documentary painter
The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”
ArchiveExhibitions
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
ArchiveExhibitions
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
ArchiveJohn Singer Sargent
The deeply educated John Singer Sargent
The painter’s portraits of his diverse circle of polymathic friends
ArchiveCollectors
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
ArchiveIsabella d'Este
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
ArchiveArt & Technology
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.
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
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
ArchiveTate
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
ArchiveLucian Freud
Freud's new drawings leave Bacon unzipped
Freud drawings revealed at Frieze
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Portrait of Bacon’s lover to be auctioned
Isabel Rawsthorne diptych on the block at Sotheby's
ArchiveBooks
The Art of Domestic Life: This well-argued study considers the changing status of women in family portraits
'That’s no lady, that’s my wife…'
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Two Bacons may share more than an interest in portraiture
See for yourself as Sir Nathaniel Bacon and Francis Bacon go on show in London
ArchiveTate
Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai to remain in the UK, but in private hands
The painting which was bought at Sotheby's was banned from leaving the country - now what?
ArchiveArshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky gets personal at Gagosian Gallery with portraits of family
None of the 33 works are for sale
ArchiveExhibitions
Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II, 1660-85
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
ArchiveThomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff retrospective begins a three-year tour
The German photographer compares his serial working method to “a scientist carrying out a series of experiments”
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
The National Gallery Washington looks to Leonardo and the women of the Renaissance
Seeing the true face of Florence
ArchiveRembrandt
The National Gallery of Scotland explores Rembrandt’s real women
The exhibition on the Dutch master's female subjects will then travel to the Royal Academy
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Freud ramps up efforts to find Bacon portrait stolen in Berlin
A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie
ArchiveJohn Singer Sargent
Sargent at the Tate Gallery: Beyond portraits of ladies
The most comprehensive exhibition of Sargent ever mounted shows his bravura painting at its best, and is full of surprises
ArchiveInterviews
The long and fruitful relationship between Picasso and portraiture: Interview with curator William Rubin
The Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and leading Picasso scholar in American museums discusses the exhibition he has curated opening this month
ArchiveKitaj
Kitaj retrospective finds sanctuary in the US after cyclone of abuse at Tate
University College, Oxford, has commissioned R.B. Kitaj to paint a portrait of President Clinton (a former Rhodes Scholar) for the school’s Great Hall, but the honour hardly compensates for the American expatriate's treatment at Tate
ArchiveNational Gallery
National Gallery: new loans, new acquisitions
The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases
ArchiveAllan Ramsay
Portraiture on display: Allan Ramsay stars solo while a whole cast swaggers at the Tate
Two massive shows bring glamour and glitz to London