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 …

Fans of British comedy will recall the episode of ‘Blackadder’ in which Robbie Coltrane’s Dr. Samuel Johnson is furious to discover he has forgotten to …

We currently have two paintings for sale by one of Victorian Britain’s finest painters of Venice, Edward Pritchett; ‘St, Mark’s Square from the Ducal Palace’ …

Like the gifted 19th century English landscape painters of the Pether family, the artist Henry Dawson (1811-1878) was also an inventor and a musician who …

By the second half of the 19th century the city of Florence – once home to Raphael and birthplace of the High Renaissance – had …

In the earliest days of the Royal Academy in London, during the reign of King George III, the name of Richard Morton Paye was a …

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 …