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The Grosvenor Hotel, Stockbridge review: A boutique, historic hotel for a boutique, historic town
The Cotswolds without the crowds? Annunciata Elwes visits Stockbridge’s Grosvenor Hotel.
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My Favourite Painting: Jemma Powell
The artist and actress Jemma Powell on a Spanish family portrait.
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My Favourite Painting: Oliver Mears
Opera director Oliver Mears chooses a classic anti-war painting.
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The furniture which John Fowler picked out for his own home is going up for sale in December
John Fowler, the iconic decorator who moved the needle of British interior design as a co-founder of Colefax & Fowler, chose exquisite pieces for his own home — and dozens of them are now up for sale.
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My Favourite Painting: Habda Rashid
Habda Rashid, senior curator at Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, chooses an image full of 'tension and intimacy'.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Moriarty
Clare Moriarty of Citizens Advice pushes the boundaries of our feature by choosing not a painting, but a sculpture. Or rather, a series of thousands of sculptures: Anthony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles'.
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My Favourite Painting: Charles Foster
The writer, barrister and veterinarian Charles Foster on a dramatic seascape by Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
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In Focus: Edouard Manet, the man who shocked France with nudity, executions and everyday life
Edouard Manet relished goading the French establishment, yet longed for the artistic recognition that came mostly after his death, laments Michael Prodger.
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My Favourite Painting: Jean-Louis Sebagh
‘I love the beauty of the woman’s back; her elegant, naturally confident pose; and the fact that she is serenely contemplating herself.
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My Favourite Painting: The Duchess of Rutland
The Duchess of Rutland chooses a portrait of the woman who was her most eminent predecessor.
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My Favourite Painting: Clare Matterson
Clare Matterson of the RHS chooses an abstract image.
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Paul Cézanne: Stubbornness, single-mindedness, and the struggle to capture sensations on canvas
Determination, rather than innate brilliance, made Paul Cézanne a great painter, but he was always more at home in his native Provence than in the Parisian art world says Caroline Bugler.
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My Favourite Painting: Cecilia McDowall
Composer Cecilia McDowall chooses a 15th century masterpiece by Fra Angelico.
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Britain's political cartoonists: Speaking truth to power for 200 years
Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire.
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Fine Art Lighting: Making light work
Beautifully lit paintings and prints that have been expertly positioned and displayed will transform any interior, says the Hon Patrick Howard, founder of Fine Art Lighting.
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My favourite painting: Greg Pickup
Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic.
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A pretty thatched cottage in the South Hams that is close to some of Devon's best beaches and coast walks
Trethule Cottage, in the pretty Devonshire village of Thurlestone, balances coastal chic with elegant period features.
