British Art Journal

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Medieval church interiors were entirely covered with paintings; between 1100 and the Reformation in the 1530s, hardly any ecclesiastical wall space was left bare (Pl 1). (1) Although most of these paintings have since been destroyed--some...

The Monnow Valley Arts Centre is beautifully sited on the side of a hill overlooking Hatherwell Hill and The Skirrid on the fringes of the Black Mountains. It was opened in the summer of 2006 and is the brainchild of Rupert Otten of Wolseley Fine Arts....

The mysterious Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916) specialized in, on the face of it, rather gloomy little paintings of great delicacy fraught with heavy, but barely intimated, meaning. He visited London on several occasions, for example,...

The Mackinen Children (Pl 1) is admired as one of William Hogarth's finest full-length portraits, but it has not received any extended consideration. (1) Besides questions about the sitters identities and the work's proper dating, it is appropriate...

Alexandre Vattemare, ventriloque, voyageur, visionnaire Alexandre Vattemare fut un collectionneur tres representatif d'un XIXeme siecle eclectique et universaliste. Toutefois, sa collection ne presente aucun equivalent dans l'histoire, tant elle...

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Writing in the New Monthly Magazine, 1823, William Henry Curran recalled the day, early in 1804, when 'little more than a boy', that he first became acquainted with James Barry. Living then in nearby Berners...

This exhibition did just what good exhibitions are meant to do. On leaving, you emerge into a world subtly transformed. As you walk back down Gallery Road towards West Dulwich station tree roots glimpsed out of the corner of your eye seem to writhe...

The Walpole Society, LXX, 2008 'Early Mezzotints: Prints Published by Richard Tompson and Alexander Browne' by Carol Blackett-Ord and Simon Turner and 'George Vertue as an Engraver' by David Alexander Published by the Walpole Society Maney Publishing,...

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Une des plus interessantes gouaches peintes par Turner sur la Riviera mediterraneenne du royaume de Piemont-Sardaigne (aujourd'hui departement francais des Alpes Maritimes et province italienne de Ligurie) est celle qui est connue...