Among a collection of daguerreotypes for sale at Christie’s is one made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian ... A sample of the L.J. West Collection of early photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today ...

One of the most famous early portraits of Washington was painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. Stuart’s "Athenaeum" portrait, though unfinished, became iconic and was later used as the basis for ...