The collection here includes works by renowned artists such as Titian, Velazquez and Van Dyck as well as various medieval and Renaissance objects. The collection was assembled in the 18th and 19th ...

The Wallace Collection is a national museum which displays the wonderful works of art collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard ...

Xavier Bray knew since he first visited the Prado museum in Madrid at the age of 14: “I wanted to spend my life working with art.” Bray, whose father was an English journalist and mother a French ...

Five timepieces designed by French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle have taken center stage at London’s Wallace Collection as part of a free display celebrating the artistry of clockmaking and the ...

Its first exhibition on dog portraits shows that heaven on earth is a dog’s pure, total love. Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney is the Wallace Collection’s version of museum love in ...

The Wallace Collection in London says a new exhibition is its first on horology. By Melanie Abrams Five ornate 18th-century clocks attributed to André-Charles Boulle, the furniture maker to the ...

Tucked behind Oxford Street, perhaps the most consistently rammed of tourist spots in London, is a trove of applied arts and paintings that hardly anyone knows about. Compared to the big hitters — the ...

The appointment of de Wit brings the Cleveland museum’s curatorial staff to 18, with one new vacancy created by the retirement in January of Sue Bergh, who served for 22 years as the curator of ...

LONDON — If you are culture hungry in London, and one of your life's greatest wishes is to avoid the vulgar yawp and bustle of shoppers on Oxford Street, there is a ready answer. A couple of streets ...

Volupta was the goddess of sensual pleasure in Roman mythology whose parents were Cupid and Psyche (her name also implies willingness). In Greek mythology, Hedone was the goddess of pleasure, born ...