FILE PHOTO: Artist Sharon Sprung, who painted the official White House portrait of former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper ... Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has ...

The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery has purchased what is believed to be the earliest ever photo of a US first lady. The daguerreotype - an image created through the first ...

We recognize the role of first lady as it exists today because of Eleanor ... Eleanor Roosevelt by Yousuf Karsh, 1944, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Estrellita ...

“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s portrait of ...

The inscribed text—a common feature in colonial portraits—identifies her as Sebastiana Ynés Josefa de San Agustín, the daughter of an indigenous cacique. While doña Sebastiana could at first be ...

“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame ... use of gray colors, a painting method called grisaille, to depict the former first lady’s complexion.

In 2017, in the first year of the Obama administration, the First Couple selected two up-and-coming Black artists to paint their official portraits: POTUS went for Kehinde Wiley, and FLOTUS for Amy ...