He's a British actor who's charmed audiences for two decades but he has relatively managed to fly under the radar. Now, ...

The Met’s selection—from a private collection amassed by the American photography dealer William L. Schaeffer, and now a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years” June 20 through . Drawing from the museum’s extensive ...

Visitors can learn about the history of photography through the work of Mathew Brady, a famous Civil War photographer. Mrs. Husband, a Civil War nurse, will share stories about the war and Clara ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew Brady’s photography gallery. Ready to accompany him was the artist Francis B.

Mary Lincoln seeks to readjust her narrative by employing the same photographer who immortalised her late husband. But Mathew Brady has his own agenda, and it’s at once artistic and personal.

Ewing supported a last-minute compromise to rename the street Mathew Brady Street after a famous Civil War photographer with no ties to Tulsa. Before Wednesday’s vote, he told his councilors ...

A steamboat travels past the Hannibal Bridge as it was being constructed in 1869 in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City Star archives Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City special.

An 1848 daguerreotype of Dolley and her niece, Anna Payne Causten, by Mathew Brady National Portrait ... portrait of the first lady featured in the photographer’s exhibitions that May.