The Ballroom at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent. © National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel

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Pre-Raphaelite painting by Rebecca Solomon at risk of leaving the UK

    A temporary export bar has been placed on Rebecca Solomon’s portrait of Fanny Eaton. Solomon was a pioneering Jewish painter who campaigned for women artists. In  ‘A Young Teacher’ Fanny Eaton, whose mother was a former enslaved woman in Jamaica, poses as an Indian nursemaid. The piece provides a nuanced and sensitive perspective […]

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‘Sasha Huber: You Name It’ at Autograph, London

  Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT’ is now open at Autograph, London. Open until the 23rd March 2023, the exhibition explores how colonial histories are imprinted into the landscape through naming and acts of remembrance – asking what actions it might take to repair the inherited traumas of history.     Bringing together over a […]

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Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait at Gainsborough’s House.

  In 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted the portrait of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780), who was then valet to the Duke of Montagu. The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of a black man in eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person, servant or caricature, but as a gentleman. After Sancho’s death, the portrait […]

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‘Portraiture of Self and Others’ from the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022

New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery for the fifth consecutive year with Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. This year’s exhibition features 47 of the UK’s most exciting artists emerging from art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The 2022 cohort were selected by internationally renowned artists James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa from […]

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Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed at Compton Verney

  Inspired by Compton Verney Gallery’s striking portrait of Sir Thomas Knyvett (c.1569), ‘Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed’ is the world’s first exhibition devoted to an important, talented – but almost completely forgotten – painter at the court of Elizabeth I. Although the artist’s name has been lost, his recognisable approach to capturing a […]

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The Health of the Munition Worker

      As part of The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Disability: Past and Present project, a new exhibition: ‘The Health of the Munition Worker: A Disability History of the World Wars on the Solway Military Coast’, will be on show from 1st November 2022 – 31st March 2023.               […]

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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize were announced at Cromwell Place on the 25th of October 2022.                 Clémentine Schneidermann took first place for the series Laundry Day which depict the artist’s neighbour hanging laundry in the garden of her home in South Wales. Taken during another […]

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Isaac Julien: Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) at the Barnes Foundation

In celebration of the Barnes Foundation centennial, the institution commissioned Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), an immersive five-screen installation by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960). The work explores the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who was an early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and […]

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Richmond Barthé’s Seated Man in a Landscape

Previously misattributed, Richmond Barthé’s Seated Man in a Landscape goes on display at the National Trust’s Belton House after new research confirms both the artist and sitter. The sitter has been identified as Lucian Levers, who was employed as Barthé’s helper at Lolaus, the artist’s house and studio in St Ann Parish, Jamaica. Read about the research here.

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