Clare Bucknell is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her book about poetry anthologies, ‘The Treasuries’, will be published by Head of Zeus in February 2023.
In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age
Few 18th-century painters were more enthusiastic about embracing English literature than the Swiss-born artist
This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world
The painter, who enjoyed a glittering international career, was as fascinated by high society as he was by Sweden’s rural life
From memorials to history paintings, responses to the conflict often took telling liberties
How the women at the heart of the Restoration court ‘weaponised’ portraits that flaunted their influence over the king
Things rarely turn out well for the characters in the satirist’s so-called ‘progress’ pieces – rather, they capture the chaos of 18th-century life
How the Barbizon painter’s subversive rural scenes inspired artists from Van Gogh to Salvador Dalí
A collection of Dutch delftware on long-term loan to the Gemeentemuseum den Haag is a feast for the eyes
The artist’s portraits of his household are more spontaneous than his commercial work
