Golden years

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

Barbara Rosenwein opens her new book with descriptions of the diverse ways her female friends and relatives have experienced old age – some declining into dementia, others enjoying healthy, independen

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

After a life-threatening illness spurred Helene Kröller-Müller to make plans for a museum, she bought modern art voraciously, forming an extraordinary collection that shaped the early-20th-century perception of Vincent van Gogh

A new exhibition of Neo-Impressionists celebrates an influential art patron