Juliet Carey is senior curator of historic paintings and drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and was formerly senior curator at Waddesdon Manor and curator of Chequers in 2023–24.
The Buckinghamshire house was donated to the nation more than a century ago. A former curator gives Apollo’s readers a tour
‘The Blue Boy’ is heavily influenced by Van Dyck’s grand manner. But what did the artist mean by dressing up his young subject in this way?
This authoritative survey gives some of the most familiar works of English art a new lease of life
Two portraits newly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard will transform our understanding of the artist