Always in Fashion: Thomas Gainsborough’s Portraiture
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…
Turner Sails Into the Frick
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 of a dream…
Leighton’s ‘Flaming June’ Makes New York Debut at The Frick Collection
Less than forty years after its glorious reception at London’s Royal Academy in 1895, Frederic Leighton’s extraordinary painting “Flaming June” fell from favor and disappeared from view—only to be unearthed in 1962 behind a false panel of a mantelpiece…
Fall at The Frick, Manhattan’s Beaux-Arts Gem
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 return for…