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 …

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 …