The Sydney realist Herbert Badham was an insightful and wry observer of Australian life in the 1930s and 1940s.

An artist who is largely forgotten today, Henry Moore was acclaimed in the 1870s and 1880s as Britain’s foremost painter of the se

Ben Nicholson is the painter who, more than anyone else, brought progressive English artists during the early 1930s into direct dialogue with their counterparts in Europe, working at the forefront…

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…

Welsh-born artist Gwen John moved permanently to France in 1904 at the age of twenty-eight, even declining to return to Britain during the perilous years of the First World War….

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

A blue-eyed lady who appears to be a singer, or an actress, stands on a stage before a curtained backdrop.

While he was also active in the genres of landscape and portraiture, Leonard Appelbee remains best known as a master of still-life painting.

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

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.

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…

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…

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia led to the flight of some two million Jewish people from the Russian Empire.