This major international exhibition features two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei

A self-portrait is a self-assertion of some kind; how does the artist want us to perceive him?

He is so enamoured by her beauty that John Rous commissions a life-size portrait of his new wife – whose descendants reside in Victor

Originally considered a Rembrandt self-portrait, we now wonder: who was the real mystery painter behind this portrait of the older master?

Through costumes and a stylised Italianate landscape, this marriage portrait boasts the couples’ wealth and social standin

Meet the Wares: friends and siblings from Tasmania’s Spring Creek, in a portrait hopeful of a harmonious futur

By the 1640s the Amsterdam art scene was under the spell of Rembrandt, who had moved there from his home town of Leiden in 1632.

Amid the growing wealth of the Dutch middle classes, the gezin (nuclear family), comprising parents and children bound by feelings of affection, was considered the building block of a strong…

The Flemish artist Jean François van Dael started out painting portraits, decorative and religious subjects, but his career changed direction when he met the flower painter Gerard van Spaendonck in…

This meticulously rendered eighteenth-century view shows the Zuidsingel, a tree-lined canal in Amersfoort, Utrecht.

In seventeenth-century Dutch portraits of women, virtue is often signalled by the presence of a devotional book.

In 1622 Rubens travelled to Paris to undertake a series of tapestry designs for Marie de’ Medici, mother of Louis XII

After Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam in late 1631, portraits, both of individuals and of groups, became his financial mainstay. Portraiture represents almost two-thirds of his entire oeuvre.

Portraits enjoyed great popularity in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century, reflecting the growing affluence and civic pride of Dutch society.

As the foremost Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, Antonis Mor spent much time travelling between Antwerp, Augsburg, Rome and Madrid working for Europe’s aristocrac