Art

Ford Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848.

William Etty RA (1787-1849) was one of the most prolific and successful British artists working in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art celebrates the origins of the game in Birmingham and explores the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

Dorothy Bohm (born Koenigsberg, East Prussia, 1924 and a resident in England since 1939) is widely considered one of the doyennes of British photography.

At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation’s galleries of modern art, its acknowledgement limited to Freud, Hockney and