19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...

Rare Rediscovered Masterpiece by Tissot Comes to Bonhams 19th Century Sale in London London – Rediscovered masterpiece by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) is the highlight of Bonhams ...

In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. Although he signed a ...

The British empire embarked on a successful and far-reaching anti-slavery campaign in the first half of the 19th century, one of the first global humanitarian efforts of its kind. Professor Maeve Ryan ...

When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape painting is ...

THERE are days when the world changes, and a man does not notice because his mind is on his own affairs," we're told by Thomas Shield, the eloquent narrator in Andrew Taylor's Regency-era mystery An ...

London – A rediscovered masterpiece in watercolour, A Reception in the Harem by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), unseen in public for over 60 years, leads Bonhams 19th Century & Orientalist Paintings ...