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  • John Constable: Chocolate Box Painter or Maverick Artist?

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    John Constable, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons   2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the quintessential English landscapist John Constable.  Enormously popular and endlessly reproduced, his paintings today are familiar – perhaps over-familiar.  But his modern reputation masks a radical, experimental artist who pushed the boundaries of art of his time just […]

  • The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Insert Attribution Here   The development of the portrait in Spain is traced from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. Court portraits by the great Spanish artists El Greco, Velázquez and Goya are shown, and include equestrian and hunting subjects as well as children, family groups and churchmen. 19th century artists, Sorolla, Miró, […]