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Not a step wrong: on Pompeo Batoni

A revised catalogue of the artist's work brings his achievements into view

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A uniquely British phenomenon: how museums sprang up in the UK

From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide

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Romney triumphant

The artist now seems more original than Reynolds or Gainsborough

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A forgotten artist returns: George Morland’s work is at last acknowledged

Morland was an exceptional landscape painter and a great observer of social mores

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From the archive | A catalogue raisonné that shows why George Stubbs ranks among the greatest British artists

The elegance of the volume makes it a fitting tribute to a triumvirate—the collector Paul Mellon, and the scholars Basil Taylor and Judy Egerton—who will always be associated with the artist’s name

Books: Is Hogarth the greatest British artist of all time?

Three publications illuminate the subject of Tate Britain’s major exhibition

Gainsborough's House director Hugh Belsey on competing with Tate: Goliath wins

Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?