James Yorke

Bellamont Forest, Co. Cavan (c.1728), often described as a perfect Palladian villa, was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Thomas Coote

Bedding down with the butler in Georgian Ireland

21 May 2016 9:00 am

If you had the resources, Georgian Ireland must have been a very agreeable place in which to live. It was…

The Sixtus V cabinet: the supreme example of the art of pietra dura

Cabinet of curiosity: we do not even know for sure the maker of the Sixtus Cabinet at Stourhead

7 February 2015 9:00 am

Italian cabinets and tables decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones known as ‘pietre dure’ were a ‘must-have’ for English milords returning…

Anne Seymour Damer: the female Bernini?

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828) was virtually the only female sculptor working in Britain during her lifetime. Contemporary artists may have…

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The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone, by Warwick Rodwell - review

17 August 2013 9:00 am

The Coronation Chair currently stands all spruced up, following last year’s conservation, under a crimson canopy, by the west entrance…

Exhibition: What really goes on in a royal bedchamber

13 July 2013 9:00 am

What exactly are the ‘secrets of the royal bedchamber’? That the actual bed was seldom if ever slept in let…

Concealed treasures

24 November 2012 9:00 am

The Holburne Museum of Bath is a delight. Its collections were formed by Sir William Holburne (1793–1874), a naval officer…

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