Bendor again with news of another talk for my book tour. This time we're at Hardwick Hall, and - how about this! - in the amazing High Great Chamber, one of Bess of Hardwick's grandest rooms and most ...

The Prado in Madrid have announced a new digital library platform. The website contains 11,500 publications (including 5,600 magazines and 6,000 books) which are all freely accessible. As to be ...

Sotheby's New York have announced the sale of $200m worth of art from the collection of the eyelash and haircare mogul Sydell Miller (d. 2024) in November 2024. Spanning over 90 lots, works on the ...

Exciting news from Italy that a new catalogue raisonné dedicated to Carlo Maratta has been published this month. The two-volume edition penned by Stella Rudolph and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò ...

The Petit Palais in Paris will be opening a new exhibition next month dedicated to Sweden's foremost painter of animals, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939). According to the museum's website: Less known than ...

The city of Winterthur in Switzerland have sent Anton Graff's Self-Portrait at the Age of 72 back to Poland after a provenance probe. The painting had been hanging in a museum in Wrocław in 1937 but ...

Hi everyone, here's a trailer for The Invention of British Art, which is out next week (October 10th). It's available for pre-order now, through all the usual places (and ideally, your local bookshop!

I published a short blog over the weekend regarding an accidental discovery I made of a missing Portrait of Henry VIII. Having spotted it in the background of a photograph posted on 'X' / Twitter, I ...

Bonhams London's autumn Old Master Paintings sale has been published online with bidding for lots closing on 2nd October 2024. As usual, I won't spoil the fun by pointing out what may or may not be ...