Mr. Elwell lived most of his life in the prosperous East Yorkshire market town of Beverley where he must have been on good terms with h...

In the space of a fortnight in June, I had the opportunity to see both of Georges Seurat’s monumental masterpieces. In London, after vis...

One of the pleasures of being a curator must be making mutually reinforcing pairings of art works. The pairing of these two portrait he...

It was impressed on me as a child that complaining about personal misfortune was undignified and unacceptable. Despite that I shall tel...