In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium. LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits ...

Bob Dylan's artwork is going on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. A dozen new pastel portraits will go on show later this month in an exhibition, Bob Dylan: Face Value.

PORTRAIT artist Alison Burchert loves colour. And her passion for finding just the right shades to use has led her to perfect a unique way of building layering of colour using a very limited palette.

It has been almost 30 years since the National Gallery of Ireland staged a dedicated pastel exhibition. One reason is because works in pastel have to be shown sparingly, to prevent their bright ...