My favourite painting mary miers

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by William Hoare

The piece I’d never part with

The best of the season to inspire and admire

Mick Collinson recalls youthful days and nights on the shores of Loch Dionard

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

Hokusai imagined a massive breaker about to crash on tiny fishing boats. Sandro Botticelli had his Venus float in her shell on a mere sea ripple. Large or small, soothing or frightening, waves have long captivated artists, finds Michael Prodger