[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews some characteristics of Picasso's style of painting and invites students to draw their own Picasso portrait! It includes some Activote questions and some excellent websites for...

An examination of a portrait by Gainsborough demonstrates how the painting's details reveal information about the subject.

Biographical summary of the life and career of Archibald John Jr Motley, African American visual painter whose work was divided between portraits and narrative paintings.

At this site from The History Place view paintings and lithographs of George Washington. See representations of this great man at different points during his life.

CGFA provides five paintings in this online gallery: "American Gothic", "Stone City", "Self-Portrait", "Daughters of the Revolution", and "Return from Bohemia". Images only, with the briefest of information about title, date, medium, and...

See an example of how one teacher used the painting of Madame de Pompadour in her classroom to develop a lesson for a personal still life.

Nine paintings by Sophie Anderson can be enlarged with a click. A brief biography is provided as well.

An easy-to-read timeline/biography of Claude Monet, with many paintings and photographs of the artist. Content is also available in French.

This site features Peto's trompe l'oeil portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Herbert Katzman is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, which showed an influence of French Expressionism.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Henry Brintnell Bounetheau is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his local acclaim, apparent in his miniature paintings and his work with...

6 colorful images from Frans Hals. Click on each image to find a brief explanation and analysis. Find a link to a lengthy outlook on 16th-century Dutch painting.

An image of "St Luke Painting the Virgin's Portrait", created by Lanceloot Blondeel in 1545 (Oil on canvas, 144,5 x 103 cm).

An image of "Self-Portrait at an Easel Painting an Old Woman", created by Aert De Gelder in 1685 (Oil on canvas).

An image of "The Origin of Painting: Dibutades Tracing the Portrait of a Shepherd", created by Jean-Baptiste Regnault in 1785 (Oil on canvas, 120 x 140 cm).

An image of "Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting", created by Artemisia Gentileschi during the 1630's (Oil on canvas, 96,5 x 73,7 cm).

An image of "Artist Painting a Portrait of a Musician", created by Marguerite Gerard, c. 1803 (Oil on panel, 61 x 52 cm).

Painted portrait Shelley.

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Heinrich Dannecker in 1796 (Plaster, painted bronze, height 74,5 cm).

An image of "Self-Portrait", created by Adam Kraft from 1493-96 (Sandstone with partial painting, life-size).

An image of "Self-Portrait with Niccolo d'Angeli Franceschi", created by Luca Signorelli 1500 or 1503 (Wall painting).

An image of "Portrait of the Young Louis XIII", created by Jean Limosin, c. 1615 (Painted enamel on copper with foil, green canvas, 8 x 6 cm).

Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, explains how this charcoal drawing by Diego Rivera reflects his usual medium of painting murals.