Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
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Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
It could be said that a war-wound that turned fatally septic was responsible for what is known today as the Holburne Museum in Bath. Captain Francis Holburne was expected to succeed as the 5th Baronet of Menstrie but died after being wounded at the Battle of Bayonne in 1814. His younger brother William prepared to inherit the title and estate which, six years later, came to him on the death of his father. He abandoned his naval career and embarked on a rather late Grand Tour during which, it seems, his avid collecting began.
A recently acquired Perino del Vaga at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Conservation of the Perino del Vaga at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Two unpublished oil studies in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, for the Circumcision (1590) by Federico Barocci.
Drawings by Pietro Testa in Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museo cartaceo.
Two new portraits of Thomas Jenkins and James Byres by Anton von Maron and a self-portrait by Gavin Hamilton.
A watercolour study by Robert Smirke in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, for a painting of the court of the Shah of Persia.
The discovery of an earlier three-quarter length portrait of a man by Goya beneath his Portrait of Ramón Satué (1823) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
