Thrifting can be lots of fun, and it's a great way to score some great finds, including valuable antique picture frames to ...

A detail of the 18th-century group portrait, featuring an unknown Black child with Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named. ... who stares out at the viewer from a gold frame.

The story goes that Christopher Brown had kept a valuable 18th-century English portrait in his garage before donating it to the Ringling Museum of Art earlier this year. That is not quite right.

On a meandering woodsy lane in Potomac, past a 1950s ranch and a couple of McMansions, sits a barn-red house with a cedar shake roof that looks as if it belongs to an 18th-century New England village.

A portrait by one of the 18th century's best artists is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The artwork was created in 1766 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and is of a woman called Letitia Sparrow.

Director Amma Asante found the story behind her new movie, Belle, in a painting: artist Johann Zoffany's 18th century portrait of two beautiful, young English ladies, draped in silks and pearls.