Throughout the Georgian era, Bath was second only to London as England’s most fashionable town, notable for its spas and its daily promenade along the Royal Crescent and within Beau Nash’s Assembly Rooms. Fittingly, it was in Bath that the 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough became one of most celebrated portraitists of his time. … Read More
Whenever my mother was in town and the weather uncooperative, she might say to me, “Shall we go visit our friends at the Frick?” It was her favorite museum in Manhattan, just as it is for so many others—and now the Frick is back, and better than ever in its newly-refurbished home, with an inaugural exhibition featuring a triptych of Vermeer’s Love Letters. … Read More
Some decades ago, as a university student studying in Europe, I stood mesmerized in front of a painting by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) that hung at Tate in London. As a budding aesthete, I had dabbled in watercolors—and it was something … Read More
For many people, The Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in the erstwhile Beaux-Arts mansion of 19th-century tycoon Henry Clay Frick, has long been their “idealized” home away from home: a sanctuary of gracious rooms to which they … Read More
