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 …

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

Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) was one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century whose important role at the heart of the Victorian art …

It is testament to both his eminence as an artist and his importance as a teacher that Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891) became one of the …

Philip Hermogenes Calderon was born in Poitiers in France in 1833, the son of a Spanish priest who had turned his back on the church …

In 1846, aged 17, Auguste Toulmouche moved to Paris to become a pupil of the eminent French painter Charles Gleyre. Gleyre’s register at the time …

Frank Holl was one of the most gifted and influential artists of the 19th century, and his decency and depth of feeling as a human …

We talk of sunshine and moonshine but not of cloud-shine which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one …

The first question many people interested in purchasing a painting will put to a dealer is of course; ‘How much is it?’ A great many …

Clients sometimes ask me whether their oil paintings should be displayed being glass and one or two are dead-set on the idea, but whereas watercolours …