Portraits
Portraits
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.
A true icon: Pietro Annigoni’s 1955 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth
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
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
Portrait of Bacon’s lover to be auctioned
Isabel Rawsthorne diptych on the block at Sotheby's
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…'
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
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?
Arshile Gorky gets personal at Gagosian Gallery with portraits of family
None of the 33 works are for sale
Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II, 1660-85
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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”
The National Gallery Washington looks to Leonardo and the women of the Renaissance
Seeing the true face of Florence
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
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
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
Pleasant and acceptable: how Pietro Annigoni came to create a second portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1970
In 1967 the National Portrait Gallery in London did not own a portrait of the monarch—but commissioning one was to prove a challenge
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
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
National Gallery: new loans, new acquisitions
The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases
Portraiture on display: Allan Ramsay stars solo while a whole cast swaggers at the Tate
Two massive shows bring glamour and glitz to London