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Thrifting can be lots of fun, and it's a great way to score some great finds, including valuable antique picture frames to ...
Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June is now considered a treasure of Victorian painting. But at one point it was practically worthless – and nearly vanished, writes Alastair Sooke.
Picture frames were very elaborate during Victorian times. The rectangular frame for an oil painting could be 3 or 4 inches deep with several different types of carving on the borders.
Victorian views put in the frame. It has been months in the making, but a special Victorian display at Wolverhampton Art Gallery is now just days away from its grand unveiling.
An extraordinary painting which serves as the 'who's who' of Victorian Britain has gone up for sale for £10million. The illustrious line-up in William Powell Firth's 1881 famous work includes ...
Hundreds of components of Victorian-era gasholders have found new life close to their original London home as enclosures for three new, high-end apartment blocks. Erecting the three 35-meter-tall ...
Today, though his work is still not widely known, Solomon is considered a cult figure of gay and queer art history. Since Ferrari began work on the archive in 2000, more attention has been brought ...
While Maas estimated the painting’s worth to be about $300,000 to $450,000, its owner has decided to keep it and loan it out to museums as part of a traveling Alma-Tadema exhibition so the ...
Although no Frith painting has sold for more than £505,000 at auction, Beisly compares this particular one to high-priced Victorian classics such as Millais’s portrait of John Ruskin, valued at ...
£150,000 not out! Primary school to sell Victorian painting of schoolboy cricketer for small fortune after displaying it for 86 years. Captain of the Eleven by Philip Hermogenes Calderon depicts ...
A woman who bought a Victorian painting at a charity shop for £2.95 is set to sell it for £3,000 at auction. Mrs Buglass began to research the artist but did not expect it to be valuable Jan ...
Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June is now considered a treasure of Victorian painting. But at one point it was practically worthless – and nearly vanished, writes Alastair Sooke.