For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & Art & 19th Century

September 2024 Issue

Stephen Smith

Art of Rebellion

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

By Sue Prideaux

February 2022 Issue

Susan Owens

The Long Road to the Royal Academy

Constable: A Portrait

By James Hamilton

October 2020 Issue

Robin Simon

He Painted It Black

Goya: A Portrait of the Artist

By Janis A Tomlinson

November 1999 Issue

June Rose

Making The Best of It

Toulous-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle

By David Sweetman

March 2018 Issue

Tom Stammers

Mixed Impressions

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

By Barbara Ehrlich White

October 2017 Issue

A N Wilson

There Once Was a Man from San Remo

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

June 1990 Issue

Anne Clark Amor

Badly Soiled in the Struggle for Life

The Love of Many Things: A Life of Vincent Van Gogh

By David Sweetman

October 2003 Issue

Frances Spalding

Pain’s Painter

Goya

By Robert Hughes

November 2004 Issue

Paul Johnson

Boz’s Buddy

Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens

By Valerie Brown Lester

December 2004 Issue

Catherine Peters

Guggum The Beautiful

Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

By Lucinda Hawkley

July 2006 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

A Palette of Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

By Sue Roe

November 2005 Issue

Carole Angier

Paint it Black

Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream

By Sue Prideaux

October 2012 Issue

Tim Hilton

Art for Books’ Sake

Cézanne: A Life

By Alex Danchev

February 2013 Issue

Peyton Skipwith

Painter to the Stars

Jacques-Emile Blanche

By Jane Roberts

October 2013 Issue

Tanya Harrod

Arts & Craftiness

Marriage of Inconvenience: John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray

By Robert Brownell