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The winner of the BP Portrait Award was announced last night. The £25,000 prize went to Wim Heldens  for his pensive portrait of a young ph...

The website for No. 33 Portland Place, one of London’s grandest eighteenth century townhouses, has a section dedicated to the music video...

Five months ago I wrote a post about William and Kate's dubious choice of Sir Martin Archer Shee's portrait of William IV as the...

Nick and Christian Candy are landlords of London’s most exclusive residence.    The most expensive penthouse apartment in this most expe...

When Edouard Manet exhibited Olympia at the Paris Salon in 1865 she was the scandal of the season. Manet’s courtesan with her grubby heel...

In less than 24 hours, the winner of the Turner Prize 2010 will be announced. Traditionally, this is the moment for purists to wail that ...

Earlier in the week, I spotted this bottle of Pinot Grigio in the Marks and Spencer flagship store at Marble Arch. The painting on the l...

Two weeks ago Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement. While the rest of the country were snapping up Issa dresses, o...

There is an embarrassing moment in Ann Radcliffe’s much-lampooned novel of 1794 The Mysteries of Udulpho when the author briefly loses tr...

Sex Sells. Celebrity Sells. Scandal Sells. Scholarship? Not so much. The traditional way to sell a portrait show is with an emphasis on ...