From brush to bow

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

A Chekhovian opera from Colin Matthews and William Boyd

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A gruelling schedule, kamikaze flies and even a flying easel are all par for the course for four-time Royal Tour artist Warwick Fuller and he wouldn’t have it any other way