Historic vessels set sail again from wet dock at the heart of the Lake District boating museum

Two-year restoration of James Thornhill's dizzying Baroque interior was the largest open-access conservation project in Europe

Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house

The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour

Painting, which hung on the wall of a Suffolk church, will be sold at Tefaf this year

Helped by an Oxford academic, Diego López de Aragón raised the alarm after acquiring the pieces from the estate of a Spanish diplomat and collector

Stains on the lavishly decorated gown—made for royal's 21st birthday—show that it had gone to some good parties

Bitter campaign against the new museum, comparing design to concentration camp structure, almost derailed the project

The esteemed 19th-century author was also a renowned dandy whose passion for fashion increased with his fame and fortune

Landmark Trust's restoration finds that oak timber used to build Welsh house was felled in the winters of 1418-19 and 1420-21

Skeleton of young man was evicted to make way for the body of the first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos's pet dog

The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and "witchmarks" against evil spirits