National Gallery

The couple travelled extensively in Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany during their married life, partly in quest of masterpieces for the National Gallery .

Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery in London, the Louvre

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

She sometimes wrote of her own drawing and painting as an obsession: Why cannot one be content to look at it? I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result. But also, watching and...

The cover features Uccello 's well-known painting St George and the Dragon, in the National Gallery , subject of Not My Best Side, the poem which remains UAF 's single best-known work. Cover-paintings...

The Russian journey launched ER 's literary career, through the success of the book she wrote about it. Already an experienced translator, she was encouraged by this success to write essays and reviews for periodicals...

After the war, MS got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association . The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds

During the 1870s the future LCC developed a passion for art. She went on to become a close associate of some of the most famous artists of the day. Much of her journalistic career drew...

In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake , and through him other artists, such as John Jackson and J. W. M. Turner . MC 's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of...

Kemble describes AP in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. She had, however, a strong sense of herself and her opinions, as...

BB , on her twenty-fifth birthday, married art historian Michael Levey , who later became Director of the National Gallery and who was knighted in 1981.

AG was particularly close to one of her nephews, Hugh Lane , who became a London art dealer. After his death in the sinking of the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, she engaged in delicate...

At twenty-two, NH felt it was time she experienced sex. She selected a most beautiful creature with long green eyes and hands like the Angel in the National Gallery by Filippino Lippi , and with...

KR was Andrew Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...