Susan Owens is an art historian and curator. Her latest book, Constable’s Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons, is published by Thames & Hudson. Her previous books include The Story of Drawing (Yale) and Imagining England’s Past (Thames & Hudson).
Landscape painting went local in 19th-century Britain, writes Susan Owens, as artists celebrated the miniature marvels they found close to home
The various ways in which the ancient Romans depicted figures from the afterlife tell us much about contemporary preoccupations
Recreating scenes from famous paintings has been all the rage of lockdown, but it’s the Victorians who first played make-believe in earnest
The Victorian painter certainly had a penchant for play-acting, but his depictions of Egypt remain something of an enigma
