This summer, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Alma-Tadema and Victorian Painting in the Pérez Simón Collection , an exhibition that will include paintings by some of the leading names in 19th-century English painting. The works of Lawrence Alma-Tadema,...

W..P. Frith, RA, Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881. Oil on canvas, 1883 (Collection: Pope Family Trust). Copyright Christies Image Limited LONDON.- History painting was regarded as the pinnacle of High Art and strongly promoted by Sir Joshua Reynolds...