Take five: moments in the life of sir james thornhill

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste

I’ve wandered into an oil painting. In front of me is a millpond with a cream-coloured cottage at its edge and a froth of English greenery on its banks. The scene is unmistakable. Where my mind’s eye

After a seven-year stint living in New York, Hanna and Richard Litchfield decided the time was right to head home to the UK with their two young sons, James and Felix. They initially relocated back to

Using a painting to envisage a room–or record it for posterity–provides an exciting alternative to digital technology, says Arabella Youens

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers