Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

After early profligate years in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Francis Grant traded sporting scenes for portraits and climbed the ladder to become president of the Royal Academy. A forthcoming exhibition at Dickinson does justice to his drawing

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

Holbein Elizabeth Goldring (Paul Mellon Centre, £40) ACCORDING ...

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Andrew Graham-Dixon ...