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A rare oil painting of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, which is believed to have been damaged by a Hindu ...
With June having just ‘pulled into the station’, we now have all the weather statistics for the driest spring since goodness ...
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, having spent decades in black-clad mourning, a "stuffy establishment" passed with her, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. By the time of her son's ...
(Image: Laurits Regner Tuxen©/AFP) Visitors can admire paintings and water colours by such artists as Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John Singer Sargent, as well as bronze sculptures by ...
Six Centuries of Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico — the largest art museum in the Caribbean. This exhibition showcases sixty masterworks spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries, ...
A teeming opening gallery presents, against vivid green walls, some of the cornucopia of objects that they (and, later, George and Mary) amassed, including paintings by Frederic Leighton and Lawrence ...
The lore surrounding the 1895 painting is nearly as vivid as the colors that have enchanted audiences for more than 100 years. The slumbering beauty painted by Frederic Leighton is one of about 60 ...
Botticelli’s Primavera has a flower-spangled foreground, as does Fra Angelico’s marvellous painting of the Annunciation ... and the artist Frederic Leighton was adding an Arab Hall to his ...
Each floor is crammed to the rafters with paintings, sculptures, and magnificently tiled rooms. The person we have to thank for this is the house’s former owner: artist and aristocrat Frederic, Lord ...
An exhibition of landscape paintings by an artist far more famous for painting anything but landscapes has opened in Kensington, offering fresh insights into Frederic Leighton‘s artistic leanings.
When you think of Frederic Leighton, eminent Victorian, president of the Royal Academy, painter of that staple of the gift card market, Flaming June, it’s probably classical figure paintings ...