Issue contents
Editorial
The heart of the matter
Articles
George Cottington and the Dering family portraits of 1626
by ROBERT TITTLER
Alfred Stevens’s images from ‘The Faerie Queene’
rediscovered
by TERESA SLADEN
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Hamlet and Ophelia’ and
its patron
by PHILIP McEVANSONEYA
Francis Bacon and Walter Sickert: ‘images which unlock other images’
by REBECCA DANIELS
An unpublished letter from William Scott
by SARAH WHITFIELD
Light flirtation or serious affair? Ben Nicholson,
Victor Pasmore and abstract art in St Ives and London
in the early 1950s
by ALASTAIR GRIEVE
Book reviews
Imagining Childhood, E. Langmuir
by CATHERINE REYNOLDS
Held in Trust, 2008 Years of Sacred
Culture, M. Whitehead, ed.
by SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS
The Face of the City: Civic Portraiture and Civic Identity in Early Modern England, R. Tittler
by ELIZABETH GOLDRING
The English Country House Chapel: Building a Protestant Tradition, A. Ricketts
by SIMON WATNEY
Sir John Vanbrugh, storyteller in stone, V. Hart
by KERRY DOWNES
Painting out of the Ordinary. Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain,
D.H. Solkin
by NICHOLAS TROMANS
Moving Rooms. The Trade in Architectural Salvages,
London, J. Harris
by SARAH MEDLAM
Exhibition reviews
Rodchenko and Popova
by JOHN MILNER
Picasso
by RICAHRD SHONE
G.F. Watts
by NICHOLAS TROMANS
Angus Fairhurst
by NICHOLAS CULLINAN
Correggio
by ACHIM GNANN
Pompeo Batoni
by XAVIER SALOMON
Nicola da Guardiagrele
by GLYN DAVIES
Art in Valencia
by CARL BRANDON STREHLKE
Late Bonnard
by SARAH WHITFIELD
Piero Manzoni
by JAMES LAWRENCE
Monumental prints
by REBECCA ZORACH
Kees van Dongen
by JOHN COLLINS
Royal paintings of Jodhpur
by ASOK DAS
Calendar
In next month's issue
The young Delacroix
J.F. Millet’s ‘Waiting’
Degas’s ‘L’Absinthe’
Gustave Moreau
Reviews include:
Van Dyck and Britain | Constable Portraits
Le Corbusier | New York film and video