A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

In the 1840 oil painting, a man named Frederick wears a scarlet vest under his black coat and a blue bow tie beneath his translucent lace collar. His spine is straight, his shoulders are back.

Mechanics Hall in Worcester has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits, the first in the concert hall’s 167-year history to feature Black Americans. Activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner ...

Back in 1837, Bélizaire was the Black or mixed-race domestic servant of the Freys, a wealthy, White, French Quarter family. The enslaved 15-year-old was apparently such an important part of ...

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

Through a miscommunication about wearing a red jacket, Richard Wilson knew it was “God’s intention” for him to paint Harold Alonza Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo and Kerry Rushin Miller. Newly ...

The Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini was first attributed to Caravaggio in 1963 by art historian Roberto Longhi, according to a Facebook post from the museum. As Longhi wrote in the journal ...

In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, an unkempt homeless man was often yelling on ...

Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals the Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath Scientific analysis is correcting centuries of misconception surrounding a Francis Williams portrait. William Williams ...

"Black American Portraits" was developed at the prestigious Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2020, at a time when "all the images we were seeing of Black people in the media were about pain and ...

The first Black man to win a seat in the Mississippi Legislature in the 20th century was Robert Clark, no relation, a Democrat from Ebenezer who was elected to the House in 1967.