Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singleton Copley
This sample "exhibit" from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a short biography of colonial painter and portrait artist John Singleton Copley. Includes links to six different paintings, each with an informative caption.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Gilbert Stuart
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on Gilbert Stuart, famous American portrait painter, who was featured on the one cent postage stamp.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Artistic and Literary Trends
The arts blossomed in the Gilded Age, aided by the wealth of the business tycoons. Read about the artists who flourished at the time, along with the realism in literature that ranged from poetry to novels.