Issue contents
Editorial
The Stedelijk: stopping the rot
by JAMES BEECHEY
Articles
David Wilkie and John Frederick Lewis in Constantinople, 1840: an artistic dialogue
by BRIONY LLEWELLYN
Sargent after Velázquez: the Prado studies
by RICHARD ORMOND and MARY PIXLEY
Shorter notices
Hans Rottenhammer and Pietro Mera: two northern artists in Rome and Venice
by MICHEL HOCHMANN
Leighton on the Nile
by KARL KILINSKI II
De Chirico's early years in Paris
by WILLARD BOHN
Obituary
James White (1913–2003)
by HOMAN POTTERTON
Book reviews
The Murthly Hours, Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West, J. Higgitt
by CATHERINE REYNOLDS
French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection, R. Wenley
by VICTORIA AVERY
Francesco Curia. L'opera completa, I. di Majo
by PER BJURSTRÖM
Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome: Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the Canadian Centre for Architecture and other Collections, E. Kieven and J. Pinto
by TOMMASO MANFREDI
The Great Exhibitor. The Life and Work of Henry Cole, E. Bonython and A. Burton
by CELINA FOX
Exhibition reviews
Bridget Riley
by LYNNE COOKE
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
by MALCOLM GEE
Italian Divisionism 1890–1910
by SIMONETTA FRAQUELLI
Graham Sutherland
by JAMES BEECHEY
Barbara Hepworth
by ANTHONY WALLERSTEINER
Whistler
by ROBIN SPENCER
Gottfried Semper
by BARRY BERGDOLL
Sculpture from Fascist Italy
by ROBERT RADFORD
50th International Venice Biennale
by SIMON WALLIS
Whistler, women and fashion
by DAVID PARK CURRY
Willem van Tetrode
by EIKE D. SCHMIDT
Renoir and Algeria
by COLIN B. BAILEY
Houdon
by MALCOLM BAKER