19th century
London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris
Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay
Frivolity, hedonism, sensuality and sex—OK!
The 19th-century revision of received perceptions of French Rococo art
Turner’s final flourish: Tate show traces his highly productive late period
150 works produced from 1835 until his death in 1851 will dispel oversimplifications of this later works
The forgotten collectors: Five significant 19th-century collectors
The contributions of tobacco heiresses and banking magnates explored
The big hole in Britain’s National Gallery: Bring back the Victorians
The omission of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood could be rectified by judicious loans
New Met exhibition explores pre-digital manipulation of photography
Photographers began manipulating their work long before the digital era
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
Original 1860s decor has been restored at the V&A
Victorian collectors’ pictures back on display
Books: The end of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
Queen Victoria & Albert: Art and Love
An exhibition catalogue continues the trend of challenging the dour image of Victoria
Books: What does Pre-Raphaelite mean?
This collection of essays questions how we understand the terms Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women
New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men
Former fugitive opens decorative arts gallery
Roberto Polo, once the toast of Paris, returns in style
November auctions of Important British Pictures failed to stir collectors leaving slew of unsold lots
Collectors shunned many 18th- and 19th-century works
From flea market to Manhattan penthouse: the revival of Christopher Dresser
Gilbert and George and Mickey Wolfson are among the enthusiastic collectors
New exhibition 'The pre-Raphaelite dream' rocks the Art Gallery of Western Australia
The paintings and drawings on show in Perth are on loan from the Tate collection
A story of politics and class in a new biography of Henry Cole
An exhaustive treatment of the man behind the Great Exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prince Albert and much, much more
Diary of a New York dealer, Hans Kraus, Jr: “The old medium has died and digital has taken over”
Why collectors of 19th-century painting are crossing over into photography
National Trust buys William Morris’s house
Red House, Bexleyheath, to be preserved for the nation
'For the King’s pleasure': a ground-breaking study of the interiors of Windsor Castle by a director of the Royal Collection under Elizabeth II
A landmark account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings at Windsor Castle, by Hugh Roberts, who was closely involved in the restoration of many of those interiors following the 1992 fire
Decadent collection of English art enthusiast and eccentric William Beckford to go on show at Bard Graduate Center
A sample of the collector's princely taste
Books: Henri Vever's Bible of French jewellery studies
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
The Hereford Screen, the V&A’s greatest hidden treasure, to be revealed this month
Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades
Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors
A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
Current exhibitions and publications on Turner: No stone left unturned
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship
“Art nouveau” at the V&A and “1900” at the Grand Palais. Unity of the arts
Artists and designers 100 years ago were united in their embrace of modernity
Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A
How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time