RARE 18th century Imperial Chinese paintings ... wartime Chief of MI6 and head of the British Special Operations Executive, founded in 1940 to coordinate espionage and sabotage against Axis forces.

Italian walnut and bone-inlaid cabinet from a deceased estate stole the show at a fine art and antiques auction.

Women and Whaling in Hudson's historic house tour and panel discussion on May 31 will explore how women lived, adapted, ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

(A common motif in this type of 18th ... century white audiences "something novel to see-a form of entertainment like seeing a parrot at a zoo," said Chiedza Mhondoro, an assistant curator of ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Magnificent portraits by John Singer Sargent depict the many American heiresses that married into British aristocracy in a ...

Italian walnut and bone-inlaid cabinet was among items at Halls Fine Art’s auction in Shrewsbury on Wednesday (May 21).

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which ...