Charlotte Gere
Influential then, forgotten since, remembered again: on Nino Costa
The influential “Etruscan” painter and Risorgimento patriot deserves our recognition
Bluestockings and botany
Horticultural art of the 18th century owes much to the aristocratic female garden-makers who were at the centre of Georgian society
Book Review: Ford Madox Brown’s moment
This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
Book Review: A decade of change between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic movement
An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century
Swann advocates African-American art in new sale
Auction house combines blue-chip works and those priced to entice new collectors
Art Basel Miami Beach banks on the tried and tested
Established artists first to sell as collectors take their time over emerging talents
Books: The cautionary tale of America’s other “Leonardo”
The painting that still languishes in a vault, despite nearly a century of squabbling
This book argues that John Everett Millais’ later works deserve as much attention as his pre-Raphaelite paintings
Not as bad as he has been made out to be
A story of politics and class in a new biography of Henry Cole
An exhaustive treatment of the man behind the Great Exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prince Albert and much, much more
The story of a style journey in the V&A's British galleries
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections
The story of a style journey at the Victoria & Albert
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness and diversity of the museum’s collections
Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery
Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration
A charmed couple: the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement
William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors
A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer
The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books
The lives of the collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan. Everything but the art
This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting
Lives of collectors: a faux Frick biography
This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired
"Renaissance women patrons, wives and widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550"
Catherine E. King's book reviewed
Janet Myles, L.N. Cottingham, 1787-1874: architect of the Gothic Revival
Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position
Interior architecture: a domestic model for intellectuals
Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies
New book demystifies nineteenth-century Pittsburgh collectors and how they rose out of the US's industrial centre
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed