Stroll through the second-floor galleries of London’s Wallace Collection and you’ll arrive at the Canaletto Room, named for the dozen or so expansive paintings by the 18th-century Venetian artist. Now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dame Rosalind Savill, who has died aged 73, took over as director of the Wallace Collection in 1992 and over the next 20 years transformed it from a venerable but little visited institution into one ...

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 ...

Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724-1806), Dog of the Havana Breed, 1768, oil on canvas. On display at the Wallace Collection. Image:The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle In my favorite photo of Charley, she is ...

In 1918, a 16-year-old Walt Disney made the first of many visits to France, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. The trip would have a pivotal effect on his career: he had come to work as a Red ...

Grayson Perry's new exhibition at The Wallace Collection is a characteristically "playful" and unconventional affair, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. When the Turner Prize-winning artist was invited ...