Artemisia Gentileschi is arguably the most celebrated female painter of early modern Europe. She trained in Rome with her father, Orazio Gentileschi, and later lived and worked in Florence, London and ...

Kidney form mirror, engraved on the back with scroll-pattern and basket-pattern. The excellent condition suggests it was buried with the owner and not thrown away.

At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Edridge was one of the first British artists to cross the Channel for sketching tours. He made an excursion to Paris and Normandy in 1817 and again two years later.

A 'conversation piece' showing Michael Bryan, his wife and five children. Assembled on terrace with park scenery on the left and drapery and architecture as a backdrop. Ward made engravings from Bryan ...

The five works are: Frog and Ox; Hare and Tortoise; Gnat and Lion; Frog, Mouse and Kite; Peacock and Magpie (main illustration). One of the prime objectives of the Fry Art Gallery is to collect and ...

Francis Morland was a rising star in the London art world in the 1960s, who participated in key exhibitions like 'New Generation' at Whitechapel Art Gallery alongside sculptors such as Anthony Caro.

The money to buy The Luttrell Psalter came from the prominent American banker John Pierpont Morgan who gave an interest free loan to the British Museum for a year. If the Museum failed to repay the ...

John Crerar entered the service of the Duke of Atholl in 1776, and Landseer met him at Blair Atholl during his first visit to Scotland in 1824. Crerar was a skilled gamekeeper as well as an ...

Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) was a celebrated virtuoso and amateur architect, knighted by Willliam III in 1699. Roubiliac derived his portraits of Fountaine from the medallic portrait by Jacques ...