Henrietta by vanessa bell

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

A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and ‘the most striking likeness’ of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

AFTER SCHOOL, CAROLINE POOL could have easily applied to her local college to further her art education. Yet, being the last of four children who were all supremely academic, negotiating with her fath

Selina Gardner’s love of antiques began early, with childhood memories of rummaging in dusty second-hand shops, setting up a stall selling porcelain figures and old books outside her home at six years

THE NAME OF ANNA ANCHER is one that may not currently resonate here in the United Kingdom but this will hopefully change if Dulwich Picture Gallery’s new exhibition succeeds in its objective to bring