Leonardo da vinci – lady with an ermine

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

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

The ‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’, finally on view

I’VE BEEN DEVELOPING A PORTRAIT STYLE of painting that combines realistic female characters in surrealistic backdrops. The women are usually built through a collage-style process; borrowing eyes, nose

On the catwalk, this season’s most covetable prints are gallery-worthy. Naomi Pike traces fashion’s renewed love of wearable art

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?