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Not a step wrong: on Pompeo Batoni

A revised catalogue of the artist's work brings his achievements into view

Hugh Belsey
Reviewnews

A uniquely British phenomenon: how museums sprang up in the UK

From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide

Hugh Belsey
Reviewnews

Romney triumphant

The artist now seems more original than Reynolds or Gainsborough

Hugh Belsey
Booksnews

A forgotten artist returns: George Morland’s work is at last acknowledged

Morland was an exceptional landscape painter and a great observer of social mores

Hugh Belsey
Publicationsarchive

New material for students of 18th-century taste, collecting, archaeology and the cultural exchange between Italy and Britain

Diggers, dealers and dilettanti

Hugh Belsey
William Hogartharchive

Books: Is Hogarth the greatest British artist of all time?

Three publications illuminate the subject of Tate Britain’s major exhibition

Hugh Belsey
Booksarchive

The story of the great Augustan collectors of antiquities

An explanation, an adoration and a lament

Hugh Belsey
Museums & Heritagearchive

Gainsborough's House director Hugh Belsey on competing with Tate: Goliath wins

Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?

Hugh Belsey

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