CNN

Art historians try to identify enslaved Black child in an 18th-century portrait

A year ago this month, when it was still closed to the public because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) took a major step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century group ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Who Is the Enslaved Child in This Portrait of Yale University’s Namesake?

Yale's namesake sits at the center of this group portrait, Elihu Yale With Members of His Family and an Enslaved Child (circa 1719, attributed to John Verelst). Public domain via Yale Center for ...
Los Angeles Times

Artist draws children fighting cancer and their ‘simplest joys’

Before opening her first art exhibit “The Simplest Joys,” Irvine artist Diana Mordin spent four years creating portraits of children whom she calls her “little superheroes.” She’s done 60 drawings and ...
The Guardian

‘Life is short, art is long’: the couple who poured their grief into collecting child portraits

After their daughter died aged 19, Yannick and Ben Jakober began amassing 165 paintings of children at their Mallorca museum - many with similarly tragic family stories attached When Yannick and Ben ...
PBS

Appraisal: Folk Art Portrait of a Child, ca. 1838

Appraisal: Folk Art Portrait of a Child, ca. 1838, from Cleveland Hr 3. Watch Allan Katz's appraisal of a Folk Art Portrait of a Child, ca. 1838, in Cleveland Hr 3.