My favourite painting: Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
The farmer on The Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt.
The farmer on The Three Ages of Woman by Gustav Klimt.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been painted literally thousands of times since she came to the throne. Charlotte Mullins reveals some of the secrets behind seven of the most recognisable.
Andrew Carwood, music director of St Paul's Cathedral, chooses a magnificent altarpiece.
Walter Sickert introduced Victorian Britain to Modern art, yet is best known for his drab-toned nudes on iron bedsteads. Mary Miers considers the career of an individualist who was both radical and charming.
Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life magazine since 2006, chooses his own favourite painting for one of his magazine's best-loved regular slots.
Writer and curator Gilane Tawadros chooses the harrowing Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner.
Pictures should ‘fill a man’s soul with admiration and sheer joy’, Sir Alfred Munnings famously said. Octavia Pollock charts his eventful life and argues that he perhaps does not receive the credit he deserves for the enjoyment his varied and vivid work has brought.
A brief life, a prolific output, an immortal legacy: the epitome of the Renaissance man, ‘the divine Raphael’ remains the paragon of perfection and aesthetic excellence, says Susan Jenkins.
A ‘polonaise’ carpet once owned by Rothschilds is one of the outstanding lots at Christie’s, as a distinguished auctioneer bows out. Huon Mallalieu reports.
Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum chooses Hand Inside by Ellie MacGarry.
Best known as the creative force behind Dicky and Daffy, it was her son’s death that prompted Annie Tempest to learn ‘the grammar of the sculptor’s language’, discovers Ian Collins.
Dr Frances Sands, curator of drawings and books at Sir John Soane’s Museum, chooses an extraordinary work from her own institution's archive.
Mary Miers considers how the country that fascinated Turner from youth shaped his artistic vision.
The author Paula Sutton chooses 'Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle' by David Martin.
Orlando Rock, chairman of Christie's, chooses The Adoration of the Magi by Jacopo Bassano.
Renowned British photographer David Yarrow has spent decades capturing some of the planet’s most endangered species in their natural habitats.
Dr Kate Pretty, founder of the Young Archaeologists' Club and former principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, chooses Gulf Women Prepare for War by Maggi Hambling.
Dr Jean Wilson, a specialist in the iconography and emotional history of English Renaissance funerary monuments, chooses Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines by Carlo Doci.