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Sotheby’s London fetched $4.4 million for an exceedingly rare portrait of the 16th-century queen consort, a fascinating figure in English history.

Through the life of the 17th-century artist, we can find an entangled history of slavery, Black figuration, and art.

Rare Rembrandt portraits sold for $14.3 million at Christie's, a Gainsborough painting was identified in a museum's storage, and more global art news.

The wind blows through the old, old trees and sighs softly around some rotting lumber and roof remnants. The granite marker that designated the historic building for what it was

An exhibition of 17 paintings at Kenwood House Hampstead celebrates the 300th anniversary of master portraitist Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Depicting relatives of the Dutch master, the intimate paintings are the last Rembrandt portraits still in private hands, according to Christie’s auction house.

Plus, Hoor Al Qasimi will lead the next Aichi Triennale and a copyright case regarding Nirvana merch art heads to the U.K.

A portrait of Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, is now the most expensive Tudor painting brought to auction.

Christie's in London has auctioned off two portraits by Rembrandt that were last sold in 1824, by the same auction house. Since then, the paintings had been forgotten.

The intimate paintings of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen Carels, signed and dated 1635, went for double the estimate as part of Christies Old Masters sale yesterday.