In their day, they were among the most celebrated painters in Britain: Robert Colquhoun for his figures, Robert MacBryde for his still lifes. Not only artists but inseparable life partners, the “two R

John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted

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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