The Earl’s heir And the rebel artist Artist Artemisia Stansfield has four months to prove herself to the Royal Academy of Arts. When she finds out that aristo

The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretens

An oil painting, The Portrait of Jenny, divides two brothers in life and two sisters in death. The brothers, one a priest and one a physician, each vie for the

In the quaint town of Everwick, nestled atop a hill and veiled by ancient woods, stands the imposing Wraithwood Manor. Its tall spires and gothic arches are mor

Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteent