Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Under a silver gray sky, I stared up at a line of elegant 19th-century buildings on the ... Adams' book remains a compelling self-portrait of a man trying to keep his feet as the ground shifts ...

click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age ... supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question ...

Chartwell curator Katherine Carter said the portrait enriches the existing ... Initially thought to be a 19th Century copy of an early 18th Century painting, the artist is unknown.

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, in an 1872 portrait by Alexander Gardner ... the most photographed American Indian of the 19th century one spring morning in 1872, a few blocks from the ...