Showing 21–40 of 61 results for aubrey williams
A family affair: Millais
Millais’s early career was closely linked to his friendship with the Lemprière family. The teenage artist’s desire for one of …
The detritus of the future and pleasure of the past: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain
The exhibition Ruin Lust at Tate Britain explores artists’ and subsequently photographers’ fascination with the ruin, via works from JMW …
Turner's Modern World
J.M.W. Turner is revered as a landscape painter but his art is also suffused with the wonders of modern technology, …
Art and Poetry
Tate In Focus research project exploring Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 ?1858–60 by William Dyce
Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969: Notes from an ancient island
Robert Smithson, best known for his Land Art piece Spiral Jetty, and Nancy Holt, best known for her work …
Archives & Access: Learning outreach and volunteering programmes
Using the Tate Archive as a tool for learning and engagement
The seeds of destruction: Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm at Tate Britain
Smashed stained glass windows, defaced religious statues, ashed portraits slashed with knives, sculptures blown up, watercolours defaced, art objects doused …
‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice
The sculptor John Gibson was a vocal critic of the genre of portraiture, and pitched his reputation around his classical …
‘A gallery in the mind’? William Hazlitt, Edmund Spenser and the Old Masters
This essay explores the associations made by William Hazlitt between the work of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and paintings …
Half woman, half goddess: Nicholas Hilliard's 'Queen Elizabeth I'
There are many portraits of Elizabeth I, but few reflect her image as steely icon as perfectly as the one …
Participant Biographies
Participant Biographies; Tate Papers no.8, following the Inherent Vice confernece on the replication of fragile and disintegrating scultpure
The Other Story and the Past Imperfect
The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision …
Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane: Etc. Essay: The grotesque
The notion of the grotesque in art has been around for centuries, but it is currently being re-imagined, often with …
Ruins of the Future: Art & Environment
Charting the genealogy of Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins, Brian Dillon considers the film’s subjects and themes in terms …
Van Dyck and Tapestry in England
Van Dyck first came to England in 1620, when the Surrey-based Mortlake Manufactory began making tapestries. Simon Turner considers whether …
The man who would be British: Anthony van Dyck
Is Anthony van Dyck a British artist? Jeremy Wood charts the continental shift of a peripatetic man who spent two …
Life Between Islands
Ahead of the opening of Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 50s – Now, co-curators David …
Walter Sickert
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Britain
An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
William Hazlitt’s Account of ‘Mr Angerstein’s Collection of Pictures’
Hazlitt’s account of the Angerstein Collection was published anonymously in 1822, two years before Lord Liverpool purchased thirty-eight pictures from …