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 …

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 …