The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’.

Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William ... Renowned art collector Henry Vaughan owned over 200 drawings, watercolours and prints by Turner, which he ...

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Romantic representations of gothic cathedrals and British landscapes fill the works of J.M.W. Turner, with deep dark earth tones and a heavy importance on light. Add a thoughtful elegance to your home ...

Turner produced three views of Edinburgh for Sir Walter Scott’s Provincial Antiquities. Here he focuses on the construction of Regent Bridge and Waterloo Place, at the foot of Calton Hill. This ...

In 1799, at the age of twenty-three, he moved to London and began training at the Royal Academy of Art ... of the Reverend William Gilpin (who happened to hold a prebendary stall at Salisbury ...

Weissenthurm is named after the town’s White Tower, shown in shadow on the left. Turner first visited Europe in 1802, but war between Britain and France prevented him from returning for fifteen years.

From their impeccable work ethic to their schedules, and from their literature to their art, the Japanese are never second to anyone. Be it their beautiful culture, or the cherry blossoms that ...

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

The man behind the postcard-inspired piece is Fall River native William Silvia, who goes by the artist name Kid21. According ...

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