June 1 is our very special Collectors Issue, a focus on British art with previews of the fine art fairs this summer. This week:
** Hannah Rothschild, the chair of the National Gallery, talks to Michael Hall about putting the art world on the page
** Matilda Bathurst discovers there’s far more to the Oxbridge college art collections than meets the eye
** The secrets of eels
** Julian Radcliffe’s favourite painting
** Steven Brindle explores the creation of the Harris Museum and Library in Preston, Lancashire
** Huon Mallalieu looks forward to the seventh Art Antiques London and summer Olympia fairs
** Recipes with broad beans
** Oxfordshire country houses for sale, plus what are the issues around Brexit and the country house property market?
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‘One remembers not to give the Queen a thump of joyful friendliness’: Remembering Norman Parkinson — revolutionary fashion photographer and Cecil Beaton’s only homegrown rivalCecil Beaton might be the toast of London right now, with a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, but contemporary Norman Parkinson was always hot on his heels.
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Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal tasteEdward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art.
