Before he died at 90 in 1945, Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon, a flamboyant baronet, yachtsman, auto racer and chum of Winston Churchill, had gathered one of the greatest collections of Romantic British ...

Remember that time J.M.W. Turner grew a thumbnail long enough to be almost grotesque, to perforate the paper and lift the paint into an effect of rushing iridescence? Or the time he used a pumice ...

“Durham Cathedral and Castle,” a watercolor painting by Thomas Girtin, is on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum as part of its “Luminous Paper” exhibition ...

Watercolors, Nikolaus Pevsner explained in his 1964 lecture “The Englishness of English Art,” enjoy in Britain a status “never equalled in any other country.” The reason, Pevsner suggested, is that ...

An English friend maintains that the British are not a visual people. "We like words," he says, "and gardens. That's why all those British conceptual artists who do things with trees and rocks are so ...

Virginia connoisseur Paul Mellon was hardly a novice when he started one of the world’s greatest collections of British art. His father, the famed financier and philanthropist Andrew Mellon, had set a ...

Englishman Tony Foster has traveled the world – New England, Yosemite, Montana, Idaho, Nepal, Tibet – and has taken his watercolors with him wherever he has gone. In June 2017, he rafted down the ...

Zhouzhuang, a beautiful water town in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, has always been recorded and preserved in various artistic forms throughout the years. David Paskett, born in 1944, is a British ...