The Marlborough Family by Sir Joshua Reynolds

THE painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple ...

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

Thought to have been painted in 1665, there is much mystery surrounding this painting, both in the identity of the sitter and the painter himself. Could the girl with the pearl earring be Magdalena, t

There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics

Thought to have been painted in 1665, there is much mystery surrounding this painting, both in the identity of the sitter and the painter himself. Could the girl with the pearl earring be Magdalena, t