A complex landscape study in which we see cattle grazing on the marshlands through a tracery of intertwined trees, Cecil Lawson’s Marshlands, 1876, was first exhibited with the title In…

In 1904 Annie Swynnerton created two paintings both titled New risen hope, depicting a naked child seemingly floating in mid-air, with head tilted back and eyes looking expectantly out at…

‘Genius consists in a man finding out what he is capable of and working at that for all he is worth’, Charles Napier Hemy said, assessing his own w

Michael Andrews worked slowly and meticulously as a painter, producing only a handful of finished works in any given year.

Handsome, erudite and well connected, Glyn Philpot made a considerable name for himself in the 1910s and 1920s as a fashionable society portrait painter.

An internal energy animates the sculptures of postwar British artist Robert Adams, from his first carved wooden forms to the later abstract welded compositions for which he is best known….

In the late 1950s and 1960s William Crozier took a sombre approach to the English landscape, creating dark and visceral paintings that were less a direct observation of a given…

In his formative years Alan Reynolds aligned himself with the Neo-Romantic school of landscape painting.

In a landmark study published in Encounter in December 1954, art critic and curator David Sylvester noted how: We have a pretty clear idea of the prevailing tastes of the…

White primula, 1931, was among seven paintings formally presented to the NGV by the Felton Bequest Committee in August 1937, the first purchases made by London-based Sir Sydney Cockerell as…

To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…

At the Sotheby’s sale of the Pringsheim collection held in London on 7 and 8 June 1939, the Felton Bequest acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria, on the advice…

It is an enchanting scene.

In 1901 Augustus John accepted a teaching post at an art school affiliated with Liverpool’s University College, and he and his wife Ida relocated to Merseyside, Englan

The 1920s and 1930s saw Augustus John triumph as a portraitist.