Art

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

The arrival of Napoleon’s troops in Venice in 1797 instigated one of the biggest plunders in the history of art. 

There were many obstacles preventing women from becoming artists in the 18th century, but those who overcame them created some of the most influential art of their time. 

The arrival of big cats to 19th-century London forced a change in the image left by mythology and the Old Masters. 

Attitudes to female sexuality in the 19th century were rigid and unflinching and those who failed to conform were ostracised and persecuted. Victoria Leslie compares how fallen women were portrayed in the arts with the real stories of those who ‘fell’. 

An engrossing exhibition on the origins and development of drawing from ancient sculptures. 

The life of the artist Charles Sims and his controversial, little-known mural in St Stephen’s Hall, Westminster depicting King John at Runnymede. 

The artist died on June 1st, 1815.