portraiture
How Van Dyck made his mark on English portraiture
It’s no secret that Van Dyck inspired generations of artists, but a new book paints a more nuanced picture of the painter’s reception
Why did European nobles go all gooey for waxworks?
They’re now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
The changing face of war photography
The nature of modern conflicts and the demands of today’s media has led to a shift in the images produced by photojournalists
Cult status – the idiosyncratic portraits of Glyn Philpot
The painter’s contemporaries saw him as a successor to Sargent, but his depictions of Black and queer subjects may stand out more today
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‘Like landscape, his objects seem to breathe’: Gordon Baldwin (1932–2025)