When he noticed an uncanny resemblance between John Singer Sargent’s painting of Virginie Gautreau and a Cecil Beaton ...

A history of Ireland’s original setter — the elegant, intelligent breed saved from extinction by devoted breeders and cherished as a symbol of the nation’s sporting heritage.

It proved an inspired choice: he reinvented still life as a genre and found fame in the process. Now, the Courtauld Institute ...

John Goodall looks at the sources of inspiration behind the design for the magnificently idiosyncratic West Wycombe Park in ...

Favoured by Byronic bluesmen, Eton pops and rotund royalty, the waistcoat and its later iterations are an integral part of ...

An early Rolex Oyster — arguably the most famous watch in Rolex history — is to be auctioned off by Sotherby’s in Geneva, ...

The Houses of Guinness by Adrian Tinniswood is out in November (Scala, £34).

Jane Wheatley reports on an innovative project to restore Britain’s once plentiful native oyster reefs in Tyne & Wear.

The 800-person jamboree and silent auction— tickets at £2,000 apiece — is being billed as London’s answer to the Met Gala, ...

The lawns at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire are luscious and friendly, unless you are the prey of the vile 'Strathy Strangler'.

Keen collectors sooner or later find their way to the outstanding trees and shrubs at Bluebell Arboretum in Derbyshire, ...

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