3. Detail of Hendrick Avercamp, 'A Scene on the Ice near a Town', about 1615 ...

With its focus on the power of art to bring people together, the project’s inspiration includes mythological paintings in our ...

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Saint Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers and stonemasons. He was a deacon in the early Christian church and cared for the poor. Stephen was stoned to death by the Jewish council in Jerusalem ...

A festive, colourful printmaking class where you will design and print your own Christmas cards. Lino printing in a fun and effective form of printmaking which involves carving a design into linoleum.

Sir Henry Raeburn is perhaps the best known of all Scottish painters. He was almost exclusively a portraitist and his career was wholly in Scotland, mainly in Edinburgh. Apprenticed to a jeweller, it ...

Willem Cornelisz. Duyster was born and worked in Amsterdam. Because of the loss of the city’s guild records, his early career remains mysterious. He may have trained with Pieter Codde, and it is ...

Holbein was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th century. He spent two periods of his life in England (1526-8 and 1532-43), portraying the nobility of the Tudor court. Holbein's ...

Three of Christ’s followers visited his tomb to anoint his body. When they arrived they found ‘a young man... clothed in a long white garment’ who told them that Jesus had risen from the dead (Mark 16 ...

Painter and writer, Hoogstraten is best remembered for his experiments in perspective. His perspective box, 'A Peepshow', is the best surviving example of this aspect of his art. His preoccupation ...

In the right foreground lies the ruined shell of what must have been a grand building. To the left of it stands a lone figure, bundled up in clothing that is blown to one side in the breeze. Behind ...