Ride the torpedo until the end of the tube.” This has been Lord Botham’s philosophy for as long as he can remember, capturing ...

Aviator Alfred Buckham created some of the earliest and most awe-inspiring bird's-eye images – to achieve them, he employed perilous, death-defying acts of ingenuity.

Owned by the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder, the work could become the most expensive Van Gogh drawing ever sold ...

On the announcement of a competition for a memorial to Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens, Herald columnist Rosemary ...

Vincent van Gogh’s Parisian Novels (November-December 1887) sold for $62.7m at Sotheby’s, New York on 20 November, a record ...

I’m with those who put William Nicholson at the forefront of 20th-century British painting. But two things obscure his ...

The Hay Wain is considered to be one of Constable's best known works. Created in 1821, the oil painting depicts an idyllic ...

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These 10 thefts show that some people steal for political clout, to pad their own stash, and to simply show that it can be ...

From a Danish palace that barely survived a fire to a Japanese military fortress, these are the most beautiful castles in the ...

Portraits by Frans Hals, Titian and Parmigianino last shown in Scotland more than a decade ago are among eight paintings from Buckingham Palace to go on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in ...

Born in 1945, in Dublin, to a pre-eminent family of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe is one the ...