Remember the character in George Eliot's Middlemarch who never could ... In 1996 the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) bought Washington's daguerreotype of John Brown, the earliest known likeness ...

This afternoon at 5 o'clock immediately after the baseball game with Yale the portrait of President Eliot '53, painted by the well-known English artist, J. S. Sargent, will be unveiled in the ...

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Eliot, five contemporary writers paint a multi-faceted portrait of this great but perhaps less familiar of Victorian novelists.