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…
A large and complex painting first shown at Thomas Agnew’s and Sons in London in 1906, Charles Mackie’s Musical moments, 1905, is indebted to the artist’s study of Diego Velázquez’s…
A blue-eyed lady who appears to be a singer, or an actress, stands on a stage before a curtained backdrop.
A largely self-taught artist, whose work received more praise in France than in his own country during his lifetime, Edwards was a pioneer of plein-air painting in Britain.
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…
A master of animal anatomy, John Macallan Swan made a name for himself in the late Victoria era as Britain’s premier painter and sculptor of big cats, especially those of…
A gifted young artist, William Rothenstein enrolled at London’s Slade School of Art in 1888 at the age of sixtee
A self-trained artist, Cedric Morris absorbed influences from a wide variety of artists and sources, living in artistic communities in Cornwall and Paris in the 1920s.
This exquisite painting is a portrait of Robin John, the third son of Augustus John’s first wife, Ida Nettleship, at the age of fifteen or sixtee
It is one of the most recognised images in art and popular culture, pluralised and approximated in many ways all over the world.
In late 2018 – a year that has come to be associated with a renewed critical analysis of the expectations and challenges facing girls and women throughout the world, from…
An English artist who joined the French Social Realist movement in the mid 1950s, James Taylor enjoyed success as a sensitive painter of urban views, especially architectural rooftops, before relocating…
Rather than trying to capture 200 years of Australian fashion in one fell swoop, we asked a curator, a journalist, an historian, a novelist and a contemporary designer to share…
Produced in Sydney, New South Wales, Bloom, cabinet, 2018, by Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur coalesces craft and industrial design.