I’m a woman, hear me roar

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

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

From the smoke-blackened ‘engine room of the Empire’ came a group of radical artists that stripped art of heroism and sentiment and took the world by storm. Mary Miers traces the history of The Glasgow Boys

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

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

LUCIA LEYFIELD IS NOT AN ARTIST prone to grand statements. Her work speaks in subtle tones: sketchbook pages filled with weathered doorways, overheard conversations or fragments of wild gardens. A let