What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...
A Georgian manor house in the English countryside that during its heyday hosted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Prince Arthur, the third son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, has just been put ...
New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Recently uncovered documents show ...
A piece of 18th-century English architectural history has come on the market for the first time in 25 years for an asking price of £6.25 million (US$8.2 million). The 120-acre estate on the border of ...
Often, when I see that a book comes directly out of a dissertation, there’s a sinking feeling that it may be arcane and academic in the extreme. The kind of book that’s filled with jargon and overly ...
One lucky antiques enthusiast was in for the shock of a lifetime when they last went dumpster diving. Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It could be a scene out of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding or Masterpiece Theater on PBS. The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family in ...
Gold oval brooch with a band of diamonds within a blue glass guilloche border surrounded by white enamel (1890). Lady’s blue right eye with dark brow (all images from Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from ...
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