Take five: horses that made it into art

The piece I’d never part with

Brown Jack not only won six consecutive times in Ascot’s Queen Alexandra Stakes, but was also the model for one of only two finished sculptures by Sir Alfred Munnings. A cast of it made top price at auction–as did a Canaletto at another sale

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar

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

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

How India, and a literary socialite, inspired Cartier’s most vibrant creation