With a heavy art

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Built on land bordering Queen’s Park, it was simply a wonderful and exotic place. As a five-year-old first-timer, until it closed for good (when I was 11 years old), I visited the place so many times

Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’

A brass-inlaid rosewood table, three of four Seasons bursting with colour and a rare pair of powder-blue vases should draw every eye at the forthcoming Decorative Art Fair in London