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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

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

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

Home to a marquess and an RAF air crew – and believed to be the birthplace of a Queen – this red-brick Jacobean mansion contains stories spanning centuries

THOMAS W SCHALLER IS AN INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED WATERCOLOUR ARTIST based in New York. He is the winner of numerous awards, including from the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, the America