Ship ahoy

The piece I’d never part with

The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works

The Rothschild name is famous throughout Europe: a family renowned for banking, vast fortunes, sumptuous houses and philanthropic acts. Recently, Britain lost Rothschild legend, Jacob, 4th Baron Roths

The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past

“GREAT THINGS ARE NOT DONE BY IMPULSE, but by a series of small things brought together.” These are the words of Vincent van Gogh but also reflect the philosophy of renowned German contemporary artist

Looking back at the past few months, an antique nest of drawers made to house artists’ pigments and a group exhibition of drawings spanning 500 years stand out as some of the most intriguing offerings of the summer