Victorian art, long absent from art-history books, is suddenly buzz-worthy. Can you think of anything less trendy than a Victorian painting?" says Rupert Maas, the London dealer whose family gallery ...
We are mistaken to think of the Victorian Age as prim, proper, overstuffed and dull. As an exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art makes abundantly and sumptuously clear, the reign of Queen ...
The horror, the horror! Damien Hirst has turned to realist painting. The press’s favorite art-world provocateur may still be best known for his shark suspended in formaldehyde – not to mention such ...
"Antiques Roadshow" is a great guilty pleasure for wannabe antiquers, but once in awhile their appraisers find some truly unique gems. Recently, one guest showed off a portrait that had been in his ...
The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow has made one of the finest finds in its nearly 40-year run while filming in Harrogate, England. The item discovered is a long-lost painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in England in 1848, was one of the first art movements to adopt a name and a manifesto, a strategy that morphed into the many “isms” of the 20th century. Alas, ...
AN exhibition of work by an Victorian painter who spent more than 40 years in an asylum is to go on show in County Durham. Richard Dadd - 1817-1886 traces his art from before the onset of his mental ...