Tom Stammers is a historian of France and Reader in Art and Cultural history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His first book, ‘The Purchase of the Past’ (Cambridge University Press), won the 2021 RHS Gladstone Prize.
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s landmark history of the afterlife of classical sculpture has been refreshed to give it even more longevity
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
For his Paris apartment, Léonce Rosenberg commissioned works from the likes of Picabia and de Chirico, fusing modernism and classic French style
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
For 80 years, the Women’s International Art Club allowed artists to exhibit work that had yet to find wider acceptance
The painter was always reluctant to regard his paintings as finished and revisted some of his greatest compositions several times
Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China
The French national library's exceptional collections now have the setting they deserve
Exiled in England, Napoleon III’s widow made sure that for as long she lived there was a corner of Hampshire that was forever France
