Art

Franz Xaver Winterhalter's romantic representations of royal and noble personages, writes Joanna Richardson, have an unquestionable charm for those who live in a more pedestrian age.

The painter’s reaction to the Jacobite Rebellion is more than mere satire.

For German national identity, winter is a metaphor that keeps on giving.

The artist died on October 26th, 1764.

Denis Gifford describes the first appearances of folk heroes of the modern comic strip.

Churchill and Hitler painted scenes of the Western Front while in remarkably close proximity to one another.

“The son of a cotton millionaire scouring the auction rooms of Europe and building lavishly in the latest architectural style,” the Tory leader was a highly representative early nineteenth-century figure. By J. Mordaunt Crook.

Christopher Lloyd profiles a highly successful businessman of modest and abstemious habits, John Julius Angerstein, who formed a magnificent collection, the nucleus of London’s National Gallery, at his house in Pall Mall.

Life in a First World War field hospital is depicted in a new exhibition.

Peter Stansky & William Abrahams describe how, after Tennyson’s death, the problem of finding a new Poet Laureate perturbed successive British governments.