Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...

Young Amalia Kussner gazed out the second-floor window of her room and sketched the scenery of bustling, 1870s. A unique career in artistry was born. The next step in that trajectory came through a ...