The Holburne Museum shines a light on the Pre-Raphaelite painter’s recurring cast of friends and lovers

The Wallace Collection’s Laughing Cavalier is joined by a group of the painter’s other masterpieces in the genre

From Mary Cassatt to Marlene Dumas – a survey of portraits by modern women artists at the Fondation Beyeler

More than 60 works by Picasso’s chief artistic accomplice go on view in Düsseldorf

From Russia with love – the Kremlin Museums in Moscow pay tribute to cultural ties with France over the last millennium

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem holds the world’s largest collection of artefacts relating to the infamous trials of 1692–93

Yorkshire Sculpture Park hosts the first solo museum outing in the UK for the artist’s monumental stack sculptures

The Meadows Museum teams up with a museum of historic dress to explore the role of fashion in Spanish art

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris explores how the painter took Renaissance Florence by storm

Works on paper by Poussin, Rembrandt and other Old Masters go on display at the Lightbox

A painted-over image of Cupid was found hidden in one of Vermeer’s greatest works. Now the restored canvas goes back on view in Dresden

At the Hayward Gallery, 31 painters working in the UK today show off a range of approaches to the medium