October 2024 Issue Charles Saumarez Smith Eden by Way of Bedford The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia By Tim Richardson LR
April 2023 Issue Norma Clarke No Way Through the Painted Ceiling Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great By Rosalind P Blakesley
March 2020 Issue Robin Simon Making Rome Great Again Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity By Sarah Vowles LR
July 2018 Issue Susan Owens Traditionalists & Exhibitionists The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections By Robin Simon with MaryAnne Stevens (edd) LR
February 2017 Issue Robin Simon A Painter’s Progress William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings By Elizabeth Einberg
December 2016 Issue David M Lubin The Boy from Boston A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copely By Jane Kamensky LR
October 2016 Issue Michael Prodger Romanov Retrospective The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia By Susan Jaques The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757–1881 By Rosalind P Blakesley LR
July 2016 Issue Christopher Woodward Ruins Sublime Hubert Robert By Margaret Morgan Grasselli & Yuriko Jackall (edd)
March 2016 Issue Paul Johnson A Portrait of the Artist Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings By Edgar Peters Bowron LR
December 2007 Issue Paul Johnson Painter of All Nature George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné By Judy Egerton LR
July 2012 Issue Lesley Downer Artists of the Floating World Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan By Timon Screech LR
October 2012 Issue Bryan Appleyard Some Capital Painters The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London By Charles Saumarez Smith LR
March 2013 Issue Tim Blanning Patriot Frames The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600–1850 By Anthony D Smith LR
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