Letter, Diaries

Joachim Beuckelaer was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. He learned to paint in the workshop of his uncle, Pieter Ae …

Anders Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character of his mo …

In ‘Lady Susan, ‘ Jane Austen crafts a witty and incisive exploration of social mores and the complexities of romantic relationships in 18th-century England. Through the cunning and manipulative prot …

Anders Leonard Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and print-maker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character …

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, (1833 –1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide r …

Michelangelo's place in the world of art is altogether unique. His supremacy is acknowledged by all, but is understood by a few only. In the presence of his works none can stand unimpressed, yet …

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is best known as a chronicler of the nightlife of late 19th century Paris. He used to frequent the nightclubs and cafés of Montmartre, befriending the dancers and prostitute …

It is now about fifteen centuries since the Madonna with her Babe was first introduced into art, and it is safe to say that, throughout all this time, the subject has been unrivalled in popularity. I …

Thomas Sidney Cooper was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals, a fact that earned him the epithet ‘Cow Cooper’. Cooper collaborated between 1847 and 1870 with …

Ingres’s style was formed early in life and changed comparatively little. His earliest drawings, such as the Portrait of a Man (1797) already show a suavity of outline and an extraordinary control of …