For the love of dogs

Spring marks one of the biggest moments in the canine calendar: Crufts. In this issue, we offer some tips to get the most out of your visit... but most importantly come and say hello at the Your Dog s

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

An export bar has been placed on Anne Damer’s eighteenth century Shock Dog sculpture in an effort to protect this rare surviving terracotta model. Anne Damer was one of Britain’s pioneering sculptors

In her regular column on village life, Paula reveals that country life is incomplete without a dog, and why Lady Dashwood (a small yet mighty dachshund) rules the roost at Sutton HQ

England in the 18th century had no love for its landscape, preferring instead Italianate views, until George Stubbs came and decided to paint his horses true to the setting in which they lived, as Bendor Grosvenor reveals

Globally acclaimed English tile-maker celebrates 50th anniversary ‘Each tile we make is a piece of art,’ says Doug Watson, who founded an artisanal workshop handcrafting and hand-painting exquisite ce