The art of jewellery

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

Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. COUNTRY LIFE writers round up the very best

THE TALENTED MAKERS WHO ARE PUTTING QUALITY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP ABOVE ALL IN THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL

There are many reasons to visit the magnificent 17th century West Sussex mansion Petworth House, supreme among them is its extraordinary collection of art. Petworth’s palatial state rooms offer a vast

26 September to 19 December 2025 This focused exhibition presents over 80 works by Walter Sickert from the Herbert and Ann Lucas Collection, many unseen publicly for decades. Paintings, drawings and p

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals