Issue contents
Editorial
The betrayal of the British Council
Articles
Jan Siberechts in Henley-on-Thames
by
LAURA WORTLEY
Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portraits for the County Building, Perth
by HUGH BELSEY
'Val d'Aosta': John Brett and John Ruskin in
the Alps, 1858
by CHRISTOPHER NEWALL
A forgotten British constructivist group: the London branch of Groupe Espace, 1953-59
by ALAN FOWLER
Shorter notices
An ambivalent image: Lely's double-portrait of Charles I and the Duke of York
by FRANCES HARRIS
Letters of introduction: the Duke of Richmond, Prince Lobkowicz and Canaletto
by ROSEMARY BAIRD
Raeburn revisited: the ‘Skating minister’
by DUNCAN THOMSON
‘Antagonism to the Academy’: a letter from Edward Burne-Jones to Edgar Boehm
by MARK STOCKER
Book reviews
The Formation of English Gothic: Architecture and
Identity, P. Draper
by PETER KIDSON
London 5: East, The Buildings of England, B. Cherry, C. O'Brien and N. Pevsner
by SIMON WATNEY
William Kent. Architect, Designer, Opportunist, T. Mowl
by CHRIS MIELE
School of Genius: a history of the Royal Academy of Arts,
J. Fenton; Candidates for Fame: the Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791, M. Hargraves
by JONATHAN CONLIN
Cotman in the North: Watercolours of Durham and
Yorkshire, D. Hill
by RICHARD GREEN
Sir Thomas Lawrence, M. Levey
by ALEX KISON
Consuming Keats: Nineteenth Century Representations in Art and Literature, S. Wootton
by LEONEE ORMOND
Time Present and Time Past – The Art of John Everett
Millais, P. Barlow
by CHRISTOPHER NEWALL
Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation.
The Complete Paintings and Drawings, K. Black
by JAMES BEECHEY
Exhibition reviews
William Powell Frith
by PAT HARDY
Henry Moore
by PATRICK ELLIOT
Leighton's drawings
by JULIAN TREUHERZ
Spanish drawings
by MARK P. McDONALD
Michelangelo
by DAVID HEMSOLL
Van Gogh and Expressionism
by CHRISTIAN WEIKOP
Exhibitions in New York
by RICHARD SHONE
New sculpture
by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD
Klee and American
by DAVID ANFAM
In next month's issue
Three articles on collecting in Spain, including the patronage of Philip II and the fate of the Castilla collection.
The Annibale Carracci exhibition in Bologna and Rome.
A Whistler for Detroit
Tristan Tzara and the 'Cabaret Voltaire'
'The skating minister' revisited
'Picasso and the Theatre' reviewed