Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

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He was following the advice of Ingres, who told him, ‘Draw lines, young man, and still more lines … and you will become a good artist.’ Hogarth’s engravings ... in homage to Chardin’s most famous ...

a major restoration of the world-famous artwork has now begun. “The entire life of the 400-year-old painting is becoming visible again,” Casper van der Kruit of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam said.

The incident also led to a famous quip from then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said after being questioned whether he would throw a punch in 2005: "No, but John is John and I'm lucky to have him ...

The passing of John Prescott at the age of 86 has ignited conversations about the Labour stalwart's illustrious political career, notably marked in its later stages by the incident where he ...

The then deputy prime minister John Prescott threw a punch at a protester (David Kendall/PA) Sir Tony Blair has recalled John Prescott throwing a punch at a protester, saying “there were no ...

The collection comes from the late Salisbury native, billionaire and philanthropist Julian Roberston and his wife Josie.

William, the heir to the throne, and his family are believed to have been at home at the time of the burglary, according to The Sun, a London tabloid, which first reported the incident on Sunday.

John Prescott, Hull East's MP for 40 years, was a major British political figure, at the forefront of the Labour Party's modernisation in the 1990s, and the country's longest-serving deputy prime ...

118 x 82 cm. (46.5 x 32.3 in.) ...