John William Waterhouse often featured figures from literature or Greek mythology... but what dark secrets is his mermaid ...

Dogs, cats, goats, and ocelots. Animals have long served as muses and companions to artists and creatives. Here are our five ...

Held every year since 1769, the Summer Exhibition displays works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists. The Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest open submission ...

F.W. Farrer, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Clara Richmond ...

Formal gardens in England and Scotland : their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features / by H. Inigo Triggs. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and ...

Many of Michaelina Wautier's works were posthumously attributed to men over the centuries. But how do you spot a Wautier ...

A 17th-century trailblazer rediscovered. Active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century, Michaelina Wautier challenged the limits imposed on female artists at the time by working on an unusually ...

Rose Wylie loves how a film can capture the same scene from multiple perspectives, certain shots from striking films are seared into her memory and often re-materialise in paintings. One director in ...

Leighton, Millais and William Morris : a lecture delivered to the students of the Royal Academy / by Sir William Blake Richmond, Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts - London ; New York: ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Founded in 1854 by George C. Nottage, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company was one of the most successful photographic companies of the nineteenth century. Selling photographic equipment ...