From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

Renovating this Victorian property was a labour of love for Emer Gillespie, who’s created a space packed with clever touches

Michaelina Wautier is one of the most compelling rediscoveries in Baroque painting. Working in 17th-century Brussels, she tackled subjects usually reserved for men, producing still lifes, portraits an

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The sale of a Fabergé imperial egg and a 15th-century triptych made headlines last year, but one of the most powerful pieces was a painting by Richard Parkes Bonington showing what he could have become, had he not died so young

HousekeeperAn Exhibition by Cathie PilkingtonFreud Museum London, until March 1 If you had stepped inside Sigmund Freud’s consulting room at Berggasse 19 at any point before 1938 when he made the move