Lord Henry Wotton meets young Dorian Gray in Basil Hallward’s studio on the very day Basil finishes Dorian’s portrait. Basil ...
The very newest of the hats dates back to 1933, most are Victorian. This is the Hospital of the Holy ... with grand carved chairs at the head and food. There are portraits of venerable historical ...
A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.
A miniature depicting a young Victorian woman is the spur for a tale of male duplicity and female resourcefulness in The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley (Breakthrough Books £10.99). Jewellery ...
In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences.
We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.
She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, and set up home with two men but her most sensual paintings were of women. Now a major ...
Fans were rushing to support BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill as he browsed a charity shop - but happened upon ...
Payal Kapadia on identity and her brilliant film All We Imagine as Light Inside: David Lynch’s musings, Andrea Arnold on Bird, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Berger on Conclave, archive Isabelle Huppert and ...
Albert Durrant Watson was a physician, a poet, and a hymn writer. Starting in 1918, he took on a new role: host of séances.