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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

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

Sitting in her sunny kitchen overlooking the Thames-side garden she came to know in the 1930s, Marthe Armitage concedes that it’s not an easy house to leave. ‘I was nine years old when my parents move

A line in a sermon by John Donne so struck Stanley Spencer that he turned it into a painting. Now, a study for the picture is on offer at the British Art Fair

For centuries, British lovers of art and architecture have travelled to Europe and beyond, to explore cultural wonders and bring home beautiful objects as mementos of marvellous discoveries. Stepping