Stroke of genius

Here’s how Jane Austen’s talent for storytelling continues to inspire TV and film versions of her novels

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals

Playing the field GENTLEMAN’S outfitters Oliver Brown has ...

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

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

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?