Tate Britain Linbury Galleries Open daily 10.00–18.00 and until 22.00 every Friday from October. For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Martin was, first of all, not a Victorian at all ... arriving in London as a china and glass painter (one of the two known examples of his china painting that has survived is on exhibition here).