“The cat’s star was on the rise in Victorian ... pet memoirs … and in family photographs.” Yet despite such success, Wain struggled. His wife died in 1887. He channeled his grief into his ...

We are mistaken to think of the Victorian Age as prim, proper, overstuffed and dull. As an exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art makes abundantly and sumptuously clear, the reign of ...

Elaborate wall paintings dating back to the Victorian era have been discovered at Shrewsbury Cathedral, after being hidden for around 70 years. Conservators found colourful depictions of biblical ...

"I've been looking for a major Victorian painting for some time as I've been working on a British Aesthetic Movement exhibition. "After all, San Francisco thinks of itself as having an important ...