An exhibition at London’s Wallace Collection is exploring the art of timekeeping by showcasing five breathtaking clocks ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Hundreds of years ago, wallpaper looked very different than the simple repeating patterns we often see today. Originally done on wood blocks, early designs were extremely decorative, colorful, and ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck ...

This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” ...

A trove of 37 gold coins worth over $1 million, stolen from a 1715 shipwreck in Florida by the family that salvaged it, has ...

This is a photograph of me in my A2 coursework. The hat, hair and cake ontop all hand made, it took ages!

This painting was once owned by our first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and was hanging for several years in 10 Downing Street, so Watteau’s Le Rêve de L’Artiste has a fascinating connection to ...

Publications like this (as above) make life for the weary historian of 18th-century art worth living. Full review here. Drawing often flies under the radar of art historians. Susan Owens’s ...