No.1 Royal Crescent is presenting the exhibition Being There, featuring four recently acquired Thomas Gainsborough portraits and 18 contemporary artists.

But Auerbach was allergic to clichéd pictorial ... not “surface pattern” (hence their three-dimensionality); his portraits were intended to evoke the presence of his sitters, not their ...

Frank Auerbach, a towering figure of British art history who plotted new paths for painting with his thick, smeary portraits, died on Monday in London at 93. His passing was announced on Tuesday ...

Filmmaker Jake Auerbach decides to offer a description of his friend Lucian Freud that's more truthful than the common media image by asking a number of people who have sat for Freud's portraits ...