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In her sprightly new biography, “The Rebel Romanov,” Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg.
The exhibition’s curators presented all the pomp, but none of the circumstance. The V&A exhibition connived to present the ...
The World of King James VI and I exhibtion opening at the National Portrait Gallery in EdinburghThis special, one-off exhibition will chart the remarkable reign of King James VI and I, marking the 400 ...
After a brief stint with the Royal Marines, Prince Edward focused on a career within the arts. He worked as a production ...
There’s a portrait of ... salute in front of the Victoria Memorial. His estrangement from his family helped bring the whole Edwardian show to an end in 1914. The last room of the exhibition shows ...
Mansur and Mughal court workshops, "A zebra presented to the Mughal emperor Jahangir" (1621), opaque watercolor and gold on paper (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London; all images courtesy the ...
He bought works by Van Eyck, Vermeer, and Rembrandt, paying $225,000 for the Dutch master’s haunting self-portrait that ... Diamond A curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s “Cartier ...
Schaeffer Collection Young Man with ... driven by Queen Victoria, who sat for her portraits and everyone wanted them," says Rosenheim. The introspection of the self-portrait era was running ...
Hugh Douglas Hamilton / National Portrait Gallery ... William Hamilton / Victoria & Albert Museum, London / Art Resource, NY Samuel Ireland refused to believe his son had the talent for fraud.
When Charles Stratton was born in 1838, he was a normal baby of slightly above-average weight. But at six months old and 25 ...
British fashion house Burberry continues to develop as usual its commitment to the world of art and culture, and as proof of this is its latest action, the support for the renovation of the Fashion ...