Revealed: How Tate briefly considered acquiring a Van Gogh self-portrait—which was later exposed as a fake
The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000
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The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000
Post-war British artist Michael Andrews was a painter of light in his balloons series, and his contemporaries Bacon and Freud in The Colony Room
PERHAPS he was just having a bad day. But the first meeting in1906 between Silsden-born Augustus Spencer, Principal of the Royal College of Art, and…
In March 1913 two horse painters met at the Lyceum Club to discuss the establishment of a Society of Animal Painters to raise the profile of their genre. Of the two, it was Alfred Munnings whose profile needed raising. Lucy Kemp-Welch had been a celebrity since her twenties when her 5x10ft canvas ‘Colt Hunting in
Peter Wakelin explores the profound effects of Capel-y-ffin on the genius of modernist David Jones ahead of a new exhibition.