Encounters

That threatened thrones

With so many medals to fit in the tiniest miniature she had ever worked on, limner Elizabeth Meek literally had to hold her breath when painting the portrait of Charles III, but the result is a resounding success

The piece I’d never part with

DIARY By Jonathan Wright and Danny Bird HISTORY COOKBOOK Tomato soup cake CITIES Marrakech, Morocco Few places are more synonymous with Jane Austen than Bath – though it’s fair to say that she had mix

From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history

I must extend my huge thanks to Jon Winder for his excellent article Swings and Roundabouts (July). I am currently scribbling notes which I hope to turn into a memoir of my childhood, and one chapter