In the final decade of the 18th century the enthusiastic French art collector Napoleon Bonaparte embarked on a lengthy Grand Tour of Europe and the …

The son of the artist and polymath Abraham Pether FSA (1756-1812), Henry Pether (1800-1880) was one of the 19th century’s finest exponents of the topographical …

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century Alfred Stevens was amongst the most famous and successful artists in Europe. His skill as a draftsman …

Jacques-Émile Blanche was born into a wealthy family of eminent psychiatrists and grew up in Passy near the Bois de Boulogne where his father ran …

In the mid-18th century Europe witnessed an intellectual and cultural explosion known as The Enlightenment that emphasized reason over superstition and empirical truth over blind …

Having previously spent 20 years in television I am well aware that making interesting and appealing arts programmes isn’t easy. It’s one thing for producers …

Robert Alexander Hillingford is usually categorised as a ‘military painter’ or ‘costume realist’ but neither label does him or his work justice. I think his …

The 1860s heralded the start of a fascinating and turbulent period in French (and therefore European) art history when the primacy of Academicism would be …

Whether purchasing a painting from a gallery in Paris, Palm Beach, or the West End of London, a fine art fair such as TEFAF or …

In the second half of the twentieth century when Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko began hanging their paintings unframed they turned their back on …