Grumpy Art Historian

The lackluster totals from the recent old master auctions in London prompted more observations about the parlous state of the old master m...

Picture: Sotheby's London's auctioneers put on a fine show last week: plenty of good pictures with mostly quite reasonable esti...

Picture: Christie's It's the week of the winter old master sales in London, and Sotheby's and Christie's have some grea...

Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar has written an intemperate article about Britain's export controls, in the context of the sale of the...

Jan Royt  The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece   Carolinum Press 2015 £31.50 This is a book and an artist worthy of more attention. Th...

Picture: Wikipedia This weekend I went to Basildon Park . Some of you will know it as home to Victorian art collector James Morrison, w...

Picture: MS It looks like some one has run their fingers across this frame at the National Gallery, breaking off a big chunk of gilding...