The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901) transformed the British art world from a small group of artists who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists who were free to create ...

This spring, a rehang at the Guildhall Art Gallery brings little-known 19th-century paintings out of storage, and Tate Britain stages the first synoptic exhibition devoted to Victorian sculpture. Has ...

The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 by Giuseppe Gabrielli. Government Art Collection A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of ...

The Crimean War is often described as the first modern war because of its media coverage, from the ‘first special correspondent’, W.H. Russell, to the stark and haunting photographs of Roger Fenton.

"This exhibition has been selected and researched, and the catalogue written by, Deborah Cherry." Exhibition at Rochdale Art Gallery; Camden Arts Centre; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; and Southampton ...

“Don’t forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it.” With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a ...

TIM BARRINGER Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. 392 pp.; 33 color ills., 113 b/ w. $65.00 ...