My heart is in the highlands

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

From the smoke-blackened ‘engine room of the Empire’ came a group of radical artists that stripped art of heroism and sentiment and took the world by storm. Mary Miers traces the history of The Glasgow Boys

There are many reasons to visit the magnificent 17th century West Sussex mansion Petworth House, supreme among them is its extraordinary collection of art. Petworth’s palatial state rooms offer a vast

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 1 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

EVEN when long dead, Diego Velázquez changed Mary ...