Portraits

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has asked the National Portrait of Australia to remove her portrait from the exhibition. The portrait in question was made by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira. It is part of a current retrospective of the…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will sell a George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, expected to fetch up to $2.5 million. The painting, which is one of the hundred portraits made by Stuart of Washington was created in…

The giant Basquiat self-portrait, unseen since 1999, will finally hit the auction block at Sotheby’s during the fall. The painting, titled ‘Self-Portrait as a Hell (Part Two)’ is an 8-feet-tall work created by Jean Basquiat in 1982. The…

After two series of paintings in the past year, actor Johnny Depp is now diving into self-portraits with his latest work, ‘Five’. The self-portrait is based on silkscreen and archival pigment. Depp painted the portrait based on an image…

Italian land artist Dario Gambarin has arguably created the largest-ever portrait of artist Pablo Picasso on his death anniversary. For the feat, Dario Gambarin chose Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a self-portrait by Picasso which was…

A rare portrait of Catherine de’ Medici, wife of King Henry II of France, will return to London and put to display for the public. According to reports, the painting would be returned to Strawberry Hill House in London, where it had once…