At the time of his death in 1904, George Frederic Watts was the most celebrated artist in Britain.
View Details >>George Romney (1734-1802) was a key figure in British art in the late eighteenth century. A contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was a fashionable, prolific and at times dazzling portrait painter.
View Details >>Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time, including Elizabeth I.
View Details >>Although Frida Kahlo lived at the political and artistic centre of the Mexican Revolution, her paintings are uniquely personal.
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Matthew Bourne’s updates his sensational take on Swan Lake for the 21st century.
Bizet’s Carmen is transported to 1960s greasy garage-diner where sparks fly.
