And 200 years of tradition say that the enigmatic painting at right, owned by the New-York Historical Society, is also Lord Cornbury.

Called by one writer an "enigmatic little painting," the composition is complex and unusual, and its iconography has been the subject of widely differing theories.

A single, subdivided room full of enigmatic and sometimes spectral paintings has broken records for any recent exhibition of its kind and size outside London.

Scrutinising this enigmatic, jewel-like painting in the context of related works by Vermeer's contemporaries only enhances its lustre.

Mr. Moskowitz spent much of the next decade doing bleak, enigmatic paintings of corners of rooms.

The Tempest is an enigmatic painting featuring a fully dressed man and a nude woman in a rural setting.

"Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maidservant" (no date) is one of Vermeer's more enigmatic paintings.

His bold and enigmatic surrealist paintings, drawings and objects are some of the most enduring images of the movement.

After I had walked at least a league among these enigmatic paintings one day, I came upon an old man perched on a high ladder.

In all that he did, in his often immensely complicated and somewhat enigmatic paintings, he left clue after clue as to what he was really up to.