A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.

As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship

Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity

How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting

Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition

This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired

Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts

Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.

The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail

Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position

Exhibition promises to be “the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Art Nouveau ever staged”

Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies

The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites

From gunmakers to silversmiths

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

Two books accompanying recent museum shows

It will be the first time that an institution has allowed the story of its acquisitions to be subjected to such intense inquiry

A major survey that leaves interpretation of his achievements to the visitor

Berger collection to go to Huntington after two-year silence from the London museum

Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum

A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival

Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors

Neo-classicism as expressed in painting sculpture and the decorative arts in a touring exhibition

Exhibition of Russia's two most famous fin-de-siècle collectors now on in Moscow

Middle-of-the-range works have maintained their appeal, even as to the kind of collector who bought them when they were painted