Lilias Wigan takes a detailed look at Van Dyck's Greate Peece, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy's stunning exhibition of the art collected by Charles I. The Royal Academy has launched ints ...

There is now evidence that Henry Arundell-Bedingfeld was a secret Jacobite and van Dyck's portrayal of the children of Charles I, including the future James II the last Catholic monarch of Britain ...

Like his parents, Charles II employed foreign painters, most notably the Dutchman Peter Lely, whose paintings hark back to the precedent of Van Dyck, but with a novel element of eroticism that ...