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British artist John Martin's vast 1821 painting The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum nearly met its own end while stored at the Tate when the River Thames flooded in 1928. The painting ...

It's The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, by artist John Martin (1789-1854), who as Britain's Tate Museum says was known for his paintings "of apocalyptic destruction and biblical disaster." ...

Waters Rising, a newly-opened exhibition at the Perth Museum, explores the story of the flood through the lens of climate breakdown.

John Martin the painter – who paid for his brother’s defence at the subsequent trail – is an eccentric of art history. He came from a humble background. Born in a one-room cottage at Haydon ...

Some of artist John Boyd Martin’s previous work. His latest is the portrait of former Royals manager Ned Yost for his induction into the Royals Hall of Fame. Courtesy of Johnboydmartin.com The ...

To say the art of John Martin divided 19th-century critical opinion would be an understatement. Edward Bulwer Lytton declared him to be “the greatest, the most lofty, the most original genius of ...

"So the captain of the detectives called me and said 'Hey, John, you I heard you can draw ... "I'm already an artist," Martin said. "I've been drawing forever, since I was five.