The Victorians thought J M W Turner died in disgrace. Then they discovered his erotica.....J.M.W Turner RA, arguably our greatest landscape painter, was born a Georgian - an era when attitudes to sex and marriage were perhaps at...
Little Hans – the earliest known portrait of Hans Holbein??Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg in Bavaria in 1497. His father and uncle ran a successful workshop in the city, producing devotional...
Hans Holbein – The Dead ChristIn 1519 both Hans Holbein and his close friend Bonifacius Amerbach lost brothers to the plague. It was perhaps at this moment when,...
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the YoungerAt the end of 1533, a very large item of personal luggage was manhandled onto a ship from one of London’s docks, headed for France. It...