How the Lindisfarne Gospels became an emblem of Englishness
The spectacular 8th-century illuminated book is returning home to the north, after 500 years in London.
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Anna Boberg’s timeless Arctic landscapes
For 30 years the Swedish painter returned to the isolated Lofoten Islands, and braved “such hardships as men endure”.
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The art of drawing Boris Johnson for the New Statesman
Having illustrated 22 Johnson covers for the NS, I have studied him closely; his hair is the sole element of…
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From the NS archive: Sir Joshua Reynolds
18 August 1923: The battered reputation of British art’s first grandee and the founding president of the Royal Academy.
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Thomas Eakins: an American oddity
The great realist painter ignored scandal to depict his nation’s outdoor life on his own terms.
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David Roberts: Victorian visions of the Holy Land
The Scottish artist’s exotic renderings of Egypt and the Near East imprinted biblical landscapes on the 19th-century imagination.
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How Paula Rego dragged the dark into the light
The painter, who has died aged 87, looked deep inside herself to make sinister but universal art.
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Algernon Newton: rediscovering British art’s “Canaletto of the canals”
The painter’s depopulated cities and landscapes are visions of a 20th-century world wracked by war.
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