My Favourite Painting: Charles Foster
The writer, barrister and veterinarian Charles Foster on a dramatic seascape by Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
The writer, barrister and veterinarian Charles Foster on a dramatic seascape by Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
Edouard Manet relished goading the French establishment, yet longed for the artistic recognition that came mostly after his death, laments Michael Prodger.
‘I love the beauty of the woman’s back; her elegant, naturally confident pose; and the fact that she is serenely contemplating herself.
The Duchess of Rutland chooses a portrait of the woman who was her most eminent predecessor.
Clare Matterson of the RHS chooses an abstract image.
Determination, rather than innate brilliance, made Paul Cézanne a great painter, but he was always more at home in his native Provence than in the Parisian art world says Caroline Bugler.
Composer Cecilia McDowall chooses a 15th century masterpiece by Fra Angelico.
Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire.
Beautifully lit paintings and prints that have been expertly positioned and displayed will transform any interior, says the Hon Patrick Howard, founder of Fine Art Lighting.
Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic.
On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today.
Christopher Woodward of The Garden Museum picks a Lucian Freud from his organisation's upcoming exhibition.
The chief executive of The Diana Award chooses a picture that will inspire you to find 'people who will help you stand tall and not make you shrink'.
Jane Wheatley meets Cotswolds artist Jeremy Houghton.
A talking point that can inspire passions and transform a landscape, large-scale sculpture is increasingly valued by modern collectors. Anna Tyzack meets the artists bringing grand visions to life. Photographs by Joe Bailey and Mark Williamson.
Jane Wheatley meets Piotr Gargas to find out more about his art.
Jane Wheatley meets Nigel Calvert to discover how glassblowing fulfils him in a way that poring over hundreds of pages of legal fineprint could not.
Art critic and historian Frances Spalding chooses an unusual work by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Surrealism meets romance and whimsy in the work of David Blakemore, as Jane Wheatley finds out.
The Queen's milliner Rachel Trevor-Morgan picks Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent.