Henry Scott Tuke RA RWS, born 12 June 1858, was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable...

Jan Davidsz de Heem, born 17 April 1606 in Utrecht, was a still life painter who became a major representative of the still life genre in...

Call Me By Your Name is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino. Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also...

William McLaren, born in Ferniegair, Hamilton, 1923, was a Scottish Illustrator. McLaren grew up in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland but...

This is the first of the 'Livres de Mois' where on the last Sunday of the month I share books that I have read and discovered or old favou..

Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler November 9, 1914  was an Austrian-American actress, inventor and film producer. I could not...

I visited Wimpole Hall the day after going to The Fitzwilliam Museum. It was the end of a hot September and the grounds were all burnt to...

Raymond Voinquel, born 11 January 1912 in Fraize (Vosges), was a French still photographer who specialised in portraits, working on...

'Another Country' is a 1984 British romantic historical drama written by Julian Mitchell, adapted from his play of the same name....

Born in 1881, William Bruce Ellis Ranken was a Scottish artist and Edwardian Aesthete. He had an idyllic childhood living in vast estates...