Museums in the UK are on high alert as protesters from the group Just Stop Oil target famous paintings, including a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" and John Constable's "The ...

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

The exhibition at Turner's House, the painter's former retreat in Twickenham, south-west London, opens on 6 July. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775 and became what many ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner, who died in 1851, is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter. He is often referred to as "the painter of light" due to his ability to capture ...

Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner ... The most famous British artist of the 19th century, Turner’s career spanned over 50 years.