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An international, socially diverse cast of characters star in a new show at London’s National Portrait Gallery
Royal Academy show brings paintings together from France, Spain and US
Artists have amassed rich collections by swapping work
A rich new show of the chameleon-like genius of portrait painting
One man’s challenge: to visit and write about a London art show every day throughout August
Former chaiman of Lazard, the investment bank, honoured
Van Dyck’s biographer reports on an exhibition at the Prado that shows how the prodigy escaped from the shadow of his mentor Rubens
This exhibition of the third Earl of Bute’s collection of Old Masters is a coup for the National Galleries
Invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to mount an exhibition from the abundant Government Art Collection, Simon Schama was at first sorely tempted to ‘grab, gorge and glut’. Here he explains how he finally made his more considered choices
The portraitist fixed the hedonism of the Regency era in a style exuberantly evocative of today’s ‘X-Factor’ showiness
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