Art and Antiques

My favourite painting: Leonie Benesch

Actress Leonie Benesch, star of the new BBC adaption of Around the World in 80 Days, chooses a beautiful Art Deco image by Tamara de Lempicka.

In Focus: How Fabergé created his delicate, technical, imaginative, whimsical and always recognisable eggs, only to die 'exhausted and broken'

Against a backdrop of war and revolution, the mesmerising work of an imperial goldsmith sparked an Anglo-Russian phenomenon. Mary Miers considers the international success of Fabergé, now being celebrated in an exhibition at the V&A Museum.

My Favourite Painting: Luke Edward Hall

Designer and writer Luke Edward Hall chooses an image painted by a charismatic dandy known as ‘Bunty’.

My favourite painting: Timothy Mowl

Timothy Mowl chooses The Brera Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, a piece which he calls 'The Early Renaissance at its most captivating'.

My Favourite Painting: Sir Andrew Gregory

Sir Andrew Gregory, head of the SSAFA, chooses Fabritius's famed painting, The Goldfinch.

My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Swift, the actor made famous by Ted Lasso and Downton Abbey, chooses a striking modern work by Patrick Hughes.

My Favourite Painting: Martha Freud

Artist Martha Freud on a hauntingly beautiful Da Vinci that 'reveals so much about his process'.

In Focus: Gary Bunt, the builder-turned-wannabe-rockstar-turned-painter, whose deceptive simplicity captures English country life

Gary Bunt’s hugely popular nostalgic paintings celebrate uncomplicated life, but his art is by no means simple, finds Laura Gascoigne, as she looks at some of the paintings featured in his show ‘Seeds, Sea and Snow’ at the Portland Gallery.

My favourite painting: Dan Skelton

Racehorse trainer Dan Skelton picks a classic Munnings image.

A weekend at the Newlyn School of Art: 'You'll find yourself studying breaking waves, changing colours and shifting light in a whole new way'

The famed art school on the tip of Cornwall promises to help anyone improving how they paint. We sent Victoria Marston along to put them to the test.

My Favourite Painting: Phillipa Lepley

Designer Phillipa Lepley chooses a classic Degas image in which you can feel the energy and 'almost hear the pitter-patter of points.'

My Favourite Painting: The Marchioness of Northampton

A painting by Aigana Gali is the choice this week, an image that 'evokes the duality of the physical world and spiritual beliefs, being and nothingness'.

In Focus: The artwork that helped define one of Radiohead's defining albums

A series of paintings by Stanley Donwood, the artist who produced what is arguably Radiohead's most famous album cover, are up for auction via Christie's. Annunciata Elwes takes a look.

My favourite painting: Marine Tanguy

'The metallic finish, the storytelling and all of the layers means I rediscover a new part every time I look at it.'

In Focus: The strangely successful career of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the artist 'whose influence was far greater than his output warranted'

He may not have been the most talented member of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but Dante Gabriel Rossetti was easily the biggest romantic, says Michael Prodger, as he appraises the artist as a new exhibition of his work begins at at the Holburne Museum, Bath.

My Favourite Painting: Isabel Ettedgui

Isabel Ettedgui, owner of clothing brand Connolly, chooses the Pech Merle cave painting: 'The time between us is so great and yet the language is so familiar.'

In Focus: Why the eerie thrives in art and culture

The tradition of ‘eerie’ literature and art, invoking fear, unease and dread, has flourished in the shadows of British landscape culture for centuries, says Robert Macfarlane.

My favourite painting: Sue Barnes

Sue Barnes, the founder of Lavender Green Flowers, chooses a compelling portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

My favourite painting: Julia Carrick

ISO Luxury founder Julia Carrick chooses a calming van Gogh painting that symbolises hope.

In Focus: Lucian Freud's mesmerising depictions of his nearest and dearest

For seven decades, Lucian Freud put great energy into his work, particularly the portraits of family and friends now the subject of an exhibition called 'Lucian Freud: Real Lives’ at Tate Liverpool. Martin Gayford takes a look.