A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

February 06, 2023 Local artist uses 19th-century photographic process to create unique tintype portraits Montgomery County native Maurene Cooper is the only woman in Philly offering wet-collodion ...

Now the Vermont photographer has combined a technique first developed in the 1860s with a subject all her own: “Hair Portraits,” a series of sepia-toned portraits of women in which she has sculpted ...

Explore the lives of 19th-century women by looking at five very different portraits from the National Portrait Gallery. The photographs, etchings and paintings of Trukanini, Theresa Mort, Mary ...

The woman depicted here is stylish and wealthy--as evidenced by her gold jewels. Most likely, the artist was influenced by photography in his choice of pose and framing. Description Reverse glass ...

In the past, people relied on portrait painters to subtly retouch their likenesses. With that in mind, we decided to explore how legendary women of the 19th century were portrayed, ...

"Portraits have the power to stop time and reveal something essential about who we are," says Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, editor ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...

How a 19th-Century portrait of Abraham ... "We may have the impression that photography can no ... Photographer Federica Valabrega takes us inside the secretive lives of Orthodox Jewish women.