National Gallery of Canada
Me or You in the 30's?
Take on portrait painting and tertiary colors with a plan focused on recreating a photograph. After viewing several pieces of artwork, class members follow the instructions included here to create portraits or self-portraits in a...
Curated OER
Portrait Proportions and Flesh Tones
Using the provided blank face template, learners of any age draw to learn how to create proper facial proportions. This lesson focuses on two dimensional facial proportions, how to estimate those proportions, and drawing techniques. If...
Curated OER
Posing for Rembrandt
Students consider the elements of costuming and posing in Rembrandt's work. They collect various costumes and experiment with poses in the theme of the painting "Night Watch". Students take photographs of poses and write accompanying...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Other
Artnatomy/artnatomia: Anatomical Facial Expression Learning Tool
A magnificent Flash interactive tool useful for teaching and learning about the anatomical foundation of facial expression. Expandable animated images overlay each other to show both the structure of the skull and the muscles employed...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Sully
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a short biography and photographic portrait of the 19th-century miniature portrait artist Thomas Sully.
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company: Calendar List
An interesting collection of portraits owned by the Hudson's Bay Company. The collection begins in 1670 and extends to 1914.
Other
Frans Hals: The Complete Collection
This site currently presents images of 302 Frans Hals paintings and hopes to ultimately present all of his works. There is also a well-done biography that includes information about his painting technique.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Making Friends With Franklin
This site is an introduction plus a series of three lesson plans that explore Franklin's portraits plus aspects of his work in science and writing.
Other
Euronet: Japanese Art and Western Influence
This Euronet offers general information about Japanese art and accompanying photos can be found here. Maneuvering around this site is an easy task.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Truman Capote
An interesting appraisal of Don Bachardy's portrait of Truman Capote. Listen to Carol Wick Reaves, curator of the National Portrait Gallery, discusses how this drawing is done in the accompanying audiofile.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: James Baldwin
This audio file from Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the portrait of James Baldwin drawn by Beauford Delaney.
Other
The Frick Collection: Ingres
A careful study of a portrait painting of the Comtesse d'Haussonville that illuminates the important qualities of Ingres's faultless neoclassical style.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rembrandt Peale
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a portrait photograph and biography of Rembrandt Peale, the early American portrait painter and most of famous of the Peale brothers family of artists.
Other
National Portrait Gallery: The Phoenix and the Pelican
"The Phoenix and The Pelican: Two Portraits of Elizabeth I, c. 1575" describes two remarkable portraits by Nicholas Hilliard. You will learn how the portraits are related and some of the ways the portraits were changed from their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Portrait of Sin Sukju
"Portrait of Sin Sukju" reflected both the honor that Sin Sukju brought to his lineage as a meritorious official in Korea as well as Confucian beliefs about the afterlife. View the portrait and read about the person it commemorated.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Terms and Materials: Film
From classic paintings to contemporary works, art continues to inspire filmmakers to develop their craft, explore the power of making images, and look at the world through a different lens. Use this glossary to familiarize yourself with...
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Portrait of Giulio Clovio
This site from the Web Gallery of Art contains information about El Greco's painting "Portrait of Giulio Clovio." Also includes a copy of the painting.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Inez Nathaniel Walker
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Inez Nathaniel-Walker is described here along with information on her contributions to art through portrait painting (with elements of self-portraiture).
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Andrew John Henry Way
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Andrew John Henry Way is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his portrait and still life paintings.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Irving R. Wiles
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Irving R. Wiles is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work as a portrait painter.
US Senate
U.s. Senate: Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully
A late likeness of Jefferson, painted by Thomas Sully in 1856 from an original produced during Jefferson's lifetime. Details are provided about the painting's creation, the artist's career, and how the painting came to be in the...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Henry Durrie
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, George Henry Durrie is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. His influence is also notable in portrait painting and...