Eleanor ('Nell') Gwyn by Simon Verelst, c.1680. © National Portrait Gallery, London LONDON.- The first exhibition to explore art and theatre in eighteenth-century England through portraits of women opens at the National Portrait Gallery. With 53 portraits,...

Le Frac Aquitaine et le Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux croisent leur regard sur leur collection, à l’occasion des nouvelles acquisitions 2009 du Frac Aquitaine. Ils proposent de nouveaux éclairages sur une sélection de leurs oeuvres : oeuvres anciennes...

Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome) Head of a muse, black chalk over pounce marks, traces of stylus, watermark encircled Saint Anthony's cross, 12 x 8¾ in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm.) Est. £12,000,000 - £16,000,000 ($19,896,000 - $26,528,000)...

Powderham Castle, Devon. photo Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced the sale of fine furniture, paintings and works of art from two great British houses, Powderham Castle and Seaton Delaval Hall, in its New Bond Street galleries on 29th September...

Thomas Gainsborourgh, The Linley Sisters, © Trustees of Dulwich Picture Gallery LONDON.- To complement its recently published catalogue of British pictures, Dulwich Picture Gallery will be exhibiting the best of its British paintings this summer in an...

The famous “Blinking Sam” portrait of Samuel Johnson, painted by his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1775. Huntington Library. © The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens SAN MARINO, CA.- Literary giant Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), author...