In picturing Sarah Siddons as the Muse of Tragedy, Sir Joshua Reynolds helped make an argument for women’s equal standing with that of men within the acting profession.
Michael John Partington
Whatever his political misdeeds as king, King Charles I was a great collector of art.
Charles I as art collector
A portrait of the cultivated, but deeply flawed, politically inept, and unlucky King Charles I, who ended his days beheaded on a scaffold.
Anthony van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles ...
Built to glorify the reign of James I, Inigo Jones’s hall later provided the backdrop for Charles I’s execution.
The Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace
A prince-regent with a private architect builds a fantasy seaside home mixing all the metaphors of empire.
A-level: John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
A prince-regent with a private architect builds a fantasy seaside home mixing all the metaphors of empire.
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