Stranger things

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

WELL-WORN, FADED AND IMPERFECT. GO BACK IN TIME TO FURNISH YOUR HOME WITH PIECES THAT TELL A STORY, SAYS TALLULAH RUSHAYA

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

Looking back at the past few months, an antique nest of drawers made to house artists’ pigments and a group exhibition of drawings spanning 500 years stand out as some of the most intriguing offerings of the summer

Edvard Munch is surely Norway’s most celebrated artist, best known for his famous painting, The Scream, on display at the National Museum in Oslo. This spring, the National Portrait Gallery in London