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

A pair of comfortable Gonse chairs brought last year’s sales to a splendid end, with Old Master drawings set to star at auctions and fairs early in 2026

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

Nothing is as joyful or as transformative as paint, says Joa Studholme, the creative genius behind some of Farrow & Ball’s most cherished colours. From a scarlet door to a bedroom dunked in a soothing oatmeal shade, the Colour Curator reveals how she turns a lick of paint into a ‘moment’

A Roman villa has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

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