Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of ...

Queen Victoria’s reign began in 1837, when she was only 18. Europe was enjoying the relative tranquility of a post-Napoleonic age, but Britain was grappling with the disruptions of the ...

This isn’t, however, the first time the painting has been flagged as a possible portrait of the “nine-day-queen”. The art historian Bendor Grosvenor—a regular columnist for The Art ...

On the same day in May 1856 that Queen Victoria held a review in Hyde Park ... Crown" was "a source of great satisfaction and pride." Painting of the massacre at the Kanpur Ghats With the Prince ...

(Christopher Ison, English Heritage via AP) LONDON (AP) — A painting that has gone on public display Friday could be the only portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen, Lady Jane Grey, painted ...

idealized portraits of European royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and Neoclassical painting. Over the course of his career, the artist was commissioned to paint Empress Eugenie, Princess ...