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My favourite painting: The Duke of Buccleuch
The Duke of Buccleuch's art collection includes works by Thomas Gainsborough and other household names, but he chooses a piece from a more obscure painter.
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My Favourite Painting: Tahir Shah
Author and film-maker Tahir Shah chooses a military portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Philip Hooper
Philip Hooper of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler chooses a beguiling portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: The Duke of Northumberland
Ralph Percy, Duke of Northumberland, chooses 'Portrait of the artist with Nicholas Lanier and Sir Charles Cotterell', bought by one of his forbears for just £44.
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Country Life 28 December 2022
Country Life 28 December 2022 offers up a vision of the Grand Tour of Britain in 2023.
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In Focus: The billion-dollar art collection of Microsoft's co-founder, and what happened when it went under the hammer
Huon Mallalieu takes a look at the extraordinary paintings collected by Paul Allen over a lifetime of considered art appreciation.
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In Focus: Britain's forgotten impressionist, whose works of genius lay undiscovered in an attic for over a century
How does art endure? The painter John Louis Petit had no need to sell, did not exhibit his work professionally and most of it was forgotten until the death of his grandniece.
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My Favourite Painting: Nick Ashley
Nick Ashley chooses Samantha by Alex Katz, an artist who made his name in New York's art scene of the 1980s.
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My Favourite Painting: Jemma Powell
The artist and actress Jemma Powell on a Spanish family portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Oliver Mears
Opera director Oliver Mears chooses a classic anti-war painting.
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The furniture which John Fowler picked out for his own home is going up for sale in December
John Fowler, the iconic decorator who moved the needle of British interior design as a co-founder of Colefax & Fowler, chose exquisite pieces for his own home — and dozens of them are now up for sale.
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My Favourite Painting: Habda Rashid
Habda Rashid, senior curator at Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, chooses an image full of 'tension and intimacy'.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Moriarty
Clare Moriarty of Citizens Advice pushes the boundaries of our feature by choosing not a painting, but a sculpture. Or rather, a series of thousands of sculptures: Anthony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles'.
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My Favourite Painting: Charles Foster
The writer, barrister and veterinarian Charles Foster on a dramatic seascape by Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
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In Focus: Edouard Manet, the man who shocked France with nudity, executions and everyday life
Edouard Manet relished goading the French establishment, yet longed for the artistic recognition that came mostly after his death, laments Michael Prodger.
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Country Life 2 November 2022
Country Life 2 November 2022 looks at what London would look like if the wrecking ball hadn't held sway in the 20th century, the pros and cons of an open fire versus a wood-burning stove, and follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg — plus, it includes our annual Gentleman's Life supplement.
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My Favourite Painting: Jean-Louis Sebagh
‘I love the beauty of the woman’s back; her elegant, naturally confident pose; and the fact that she is serenely contemplating herself.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Matterson
Clare Matterson of the RHS chooses an abstract image.
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Paul Cézanne: Stubbornness, single-mindedness, and the struggle to capture sensations on canvas
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.
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My Favourite Painting: Cecilia McDowall
Composer Cecilia McDowall chooses a 15th century masterpiece by Fra Angelico.
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Britain's political cartoonists: Speaking truth to power for 200 years
Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire.
