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 […]
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.
Philip Mould & Company, London, free entry Monday to Friday, 9.30am-6pm Sarah Biffin was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’. Teaching herself to write and draw from a young age, Biffin rose to fame as an artist and established […]
Pallant House Gallery is pleased to announce the major exhibition of the British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years (since the 1984 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery). It brings together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, charting the artist’s development from Edwardian swagger portraits to […]
In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954. Permanently revolutionising the Foundling Museum’s 280-year-old collection, it commissioned five major artists to create portraits of five exceptional sitters – former pupils of the Foundling Hospital – to hang alongside […]
Life Through a Royal Lens is a new exhibition exploring the Royal Family through photography and brings together some of the most iconic images ever taken of the Royal Family to Kensington Palace. For almost 200 years the medium of photography has created an unprecedented intimacy between Sovereign and subjects. The new display explores the […]
This new display celebrates the return of Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘The Pink Boy’ (1782), one of Waddesdon’s most popular paintings, after being cleaned and conserved, a process that has revealed much about the painting’s creation. From Wed 25 May, a special display will reveal it anew, freed from a discoloured varnish, alongside three other Waddesdon Gainsboroughs that […]
This resource identifies all those men and women who have been identified as painters of any sort working in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland between the years 1500 and 1640. It includes those who were native to the British Isles and also those strangers who came and worked there at any time during this era. […]
Recording now available: University of Hertfordshire Chancellor’s Lecture 2021 Professor Karen Hearn FSA explores the rare 16th century ‘pregnancy portrait’ of Mildred Cooke, wife of Sir William Cecil, later Lord Burghley. The painting of Mildred Cooke is one of the earliest examples of an English ‘pregnancy portrait’. This type of painting was rare at the […]
