A very good dog

There are many reasons to visit the magnificent 17th century West Sussex mansion Petworth House, supreme among them is its extraordinary collection of art. Petworth’s palatial state rooms offer a vast

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

“EVERY NOW AND THEN, ONE PAINTS A PICTURE that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping-stone to other things.” Pablo Picasso’s comment is easily applicable to his famous oil painting The

EVEN when long dead, Diego Velázquez changed Mary ...

Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

A Blencathra bitch is champion for the third year running, and there’s emotion round the ring when a Cumbria beagle takes the supreme