A visitor to The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure looks at works by Toyin Ojih Odutola © Photo National Portrait Gallery, London. Available every ...

Join us as we explore the representation of women in the arts throughout history and what it means to be a woman working in the arts today. Join our monthly evening life drawing class, led by a ...

King George VI is found dead in his bed in Sandringham; he had been suffering from lung cancer. His daughter Elizabeth, who was in Kenya at the time, became Queen, the only monarch not to know the ...

A combination of low pressure in the North Sea, hurricane force winds, and high tides result in the Great Flood of 1953. With no warning system many were trapped in their homes as 20-foot waves ...

Angela Conner began her career as an assistant to Dame Barbara Hepworth. Her own work encompasses intimate and large-scale portrait sculptures of many of the most prominent figures of the twentieth ...

Harold reigned following the death of his brother-in- law Edward 'the confessor'. He was defeated at the battle of Hastings in 1066 which marked the end of Anglo-saxon rule.

Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, museum director and architect, studied architecture at the National Art Training Schools. In 1867 he was employed by the works department of the South Kensington Museum (now ...

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David Oxtoby is an artist associated with the Pop Art movement. Since the 1960s, his paintings have been devoted to the portrayal of popular musicians. His subjects range from the stars of American ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 1425 portraits, Sitter associated with 40 portraits. Samuel William Reynolds (1773 ...

George Perfect Harding (1779 or 1780-1853), Portrait painter, copyist and antiquary. Artist or producer associated with 173 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait. James Stow (circa 1770-in or after 1823), ...

Baron Studios (active 1954-1974), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 1302 portraits. Rex Coleman, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 974 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.