From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

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Displaying personal possessions and objets is an art form – and also key to achieving a room with plenty of panache

Requiring a combination of patience, flair, practicality and know-how, decorating a home is a time-consuming endeavour. And when it comes to hard-working spaces used for specific tasks such as cooking

There is much to admire in Andrew Graham-Dixon’s study of Vermeer—but not its tendency to overinterpret the old master’s work “Johannes Vermeer is the most laconic of the Dutch old masters,” Andrew Gr