Collector of souls

AFTER SCHOOL, CAROLINE POOL could have easily applied to her local college to further her art education. Yet, being the last of four children who were all supremely academic, negotiating with her fath

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

After early profligate years in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Francis Grant traded sporting scenes for portraits and climbed the ladder to become president of the Royal Academy. A forthcoming exhibition at Dickinson does justice to his drawing

A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and ‘the most striking likeness’ of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair

Farleys House in East Sussex, former home of surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, rivals Charleston for artistic inspiration, with rooms filled with photography, paintings and colourful murals, and a guest book signed by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century

THIS ARTIST IS A PROFESSIONAL working from her London studio in a mix of oils, charcoals and pastels. In addition to portrait painting, she teaches privately and holds weekly classes, while she has ex