Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting — A crude but illuminating treasure trove - 4/5 This show concentrates on Freud’s drawings, and while they were clearly casual works compared to his paintings, ther ...

The marvellous, insightful Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at London’s National Portrait Gallery shows that he ranks ...

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on?

After formal jury selection in 2025, she returns in 2026 with a new graphite self-portrait at one of Europe’s oldest ...

The 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier was almost lost to history. Eileen Kinsella took a look at her market.

Lancaster’s portrait painters are inviting the public to see familiar faces – and a few famous ones – in a new exhibition at the Storey Café in Lancaster.

Photographer George Hurrell gets another exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, spotlighting a dazzling array of ...

Almost a century after the French baron’s enormous collection of drawings was donated to the Louvre, historians are still ...

Loubna Mrie's candid and absorbing memoir, 'Defiance,' is a stark reminder of the corruptions of power, the uncertainties of revolution and the frequent viciousness of human nature.