Veronese and Sickert at Dulwich, Treasures of the Black Death at the Wallace Collection, and the Courtauld Wedding Chests
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Glenn Brown – the thinking man’s painter
A revealing retrospective traces the peculiar and brilliant career of a much collected, but underrated art-world secret
John Constable and Gerhard Richter have link
Both the ‘Hay Wain’ painter and more modern German artist have exhibitions of lesser-known portraiture opening in London
Van Dyck and Britain at Tate Britain
One of the most interesting paradoxes in British art has been the involvement of so many immigrants. Foreigners, foreigners, everywhere. It really is remarkable. Holbein was German. Van Dyck was Flemish. Lely was Dutch. No other important national school can boast this much aid from abroad. Before the arrival of modern times, I cannot think […]