The portrait seems to play with the Victorian assumption that unconventional women were somehow “masculine ... They supported their only child’s interest in art, sending her to Paris ...

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show our tastes changing too.

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld ...