With so many medals to fit in the tiniest miniature she had ever worked on, limner Elizabeth Meek literally had to hold her breath when painting the portrait of Charles III, but the result is a resounding success

The piece I’d never part with

Portrait of George Frideric Handel by William Hoare

I was at Buckingham Palace recently for a rather lovely art exhibition. I’ve been on tour plenty of times with Charles and Camilla, but I never really appreciated that the King employs an artist to ac

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

The mischievous cultural commentator and diarist who changed the way museums think about the past