What a Portrait of a British Family Reveals about 18th-Century England and Tea
Exploring tea time in the portrait of John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and His Family
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British art
Hanging Pictures in the Land of Giants
Designing an exhibition, in miniature.
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Life Before eBay: British Art Auctions at the End of the 18th Century
A major new project traces the rise of the British art market in the late 1700s.
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Anatomy of a Horse Painting
In George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, which arrived at the Museum in October as a temporary anonymous loan, horses are sympathetically portrayed within... Read More
Marilyn Manson, Luminous Poetry, and British Watercolors
I never expected to witness an evening combining British artists Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Girtin, goth-rocker Marilyn Manson, Ugly Betty, six contemporary American poets,... Read More
The Drawing That Once Hung in Thomas Jefferson’s Parlor
An American has slipped his way into exclusive British company—the exhibition Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings, opening July 19. Owned for years by... Read More