Pardon my french

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by William Hoare

The piece I’d never part with

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

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

So close was Jean-François Millet to the humble peasants he painted that he wore clogs and coarse clothing. He was steeped in nostalgia, yet inspired avant-garde artists from van Gogh to Salvador Dalí, finds Mary Miers

Cecil and his pug dog in his indoor ...