For a breath of fresh air, try the Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village in the Surrey village of Compton, whose immersive online offering is as close to a day in the country as we might reasonably expect ...
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Pegasus Books) Paul Thomas Murphy’s fluent and ...
WHEN in the year 1843 appeared the first volume of Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford, the world of English connoisseurship was ruled by conventional notions which are hardly now understood.