The Pinkertons have recovered the famous Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire, stolen in London on May 16, 1876. The painting has often been said to have been recovered before, but ...

Rather than commissioning a grand oil painting for their stately home, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire have got an artist to take DNA swabs, writes RICHARD KAY.

The paintings include portraits of the 11th Duke of Devonshire—Portrait of a man (Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire), 1971-72—reflecting the friendship between the two men who became ...

On July 1, Sotheby’s is offering a small painting, titled, Four Eggs on a Plate (2002), by Lucian Freud at its upcoming London contemporary evening sale. The estimate for the work is $152 ...

A painting of four eggs given to the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire by her friend Lucian Freud is to be sold By Hannah Furness 30 May 2015 • 7:00am Lucien Freud's Four Eggs on a Plate Credit ...

A remarkable woman of our time, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014) led a life as extraordinary as that of her siblings, the legendary Mitford sisters. The Duchess was a woman of elegant taste ...

The duchess would like to read more but finds herself too busy tending to her garden, her chickens, and her house, Chatsworth, which has 175 rooms and a staff of 600 and is set on an estate of ...

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and a painting of a horse by her friend Lucien Freud Hundreds of possessions which chronicle the life of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire have sold for over £1.7m.

YEARS after the fact, Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, looked in her mother’s engagement book to see what had been written on the momentous day of March 31, 1920. Nothing. “She didn ...