In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the nation, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced two ...

A painting by 17th- and 18th-century French artist Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746), looted by the Nazis and recovered in the famous Monuments Men photo, is coming up at auction at Christie’s Paris.

The portrait by a French court painter is one of three displayed in a photo that came to depict the efforts of a U.S. Army unit that tracked legions of looted art. By Nina Siegal It appears, memorably ...

The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph. Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait d'une femme, à mi-corps. The Monuments Men recovered the ...

Allied soldiers rescued the portrait and other works from Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle in 1945. Bettmann via Getty Images In an iconic 1945 photograph, four American soldiers stand on the steps of ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...