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 …
Reciprocal Tariffs: the Good News for US Clients when Buying from the UK
There is currently significant confusion about the US President’s introduction of trade tariffs on goods imported into the United States from other countries with American …
Frank Dillon & the Orientalist Landscape
“The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary.” David Hume, 1748 ‘Sunset on the Nile’ by Frank Dillon Image …
The Pether Family
& the 19th Century Nocturne
& the 19th Century Nocturne
Abraham Pether FSA (1756-1812) was a one-time child prodigy turned classic 18th century polymath whose experiments with electricity, mathematics, and astronomy led to the invention …
Edward Pritchett: Painter of Venice
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 …
Henry Pether: Mr Moonlight
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 …
Composition and Compassion: the Life and Career of Ursula Wood
If each of us could choose the time and place of our birth – the when and where – I would guess the list of …
Alfred Stevens: Hymns to Beauty, Hints to the Soul
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: More than a Good Likeness
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 …
Explosive Art in the Age of Reason
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 …