
Tag: discovery


The Cardinal’s Spider; and a remarkable discovery at Hampton Court

A terrific stag-weekend in Brighton; ‘the most grand and affecting landscape in the world’ and a new sketch by John Constable

Loyalty and Revelation; Cromwell, Haselrig and Verney.

Man Pissing by David Teniers; an Amsterdam story

Anne Bradstreet, America’s first published woman poet and John Milton solve the problem of ‘aetatis suae.’

‘Time is Monet’: from the Salon to the Simpsons, an old joke has the last laugh on bad reviews

The dignity of work; Solomon Brigstocke, Georgian farm labourer, and early portraits of working-class sitters

A late Tudor portrait of King Richard III restored; and the mystery of the King’s thumb solved by a postcard
