paintings

Charles Catmur One day, Charles wandered through the Senate Chamber in University Park’s iconic Trent Building, when he stumbled across paintings by William Hoare of Bath. After a some independent research, he details the history and importance of these historic portraits, and encourages you to go and see them...

Recently, the National Gallery announced that it had bought a rare work by the seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi for the record sum of £3.6m. Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615) is a striking image of female resilience created at a time when the idea of a woman...