For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Portraiture

October 2022 Issue

Robin Simon

Smile & Substance

The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World

By Steven Nadler

September 2022 Issue

Frances Spalding

Life Study

John Wonnacott: A Biographical Study

By Charles Saumarez Smith

June 2022 Issue

Richard Canning

Modern Old Master

Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

By Simon Martin

Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 23 October

March 2019 Issue

James Hamilton

Those Damn Gentlemen

Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters

By Hugh Belsey

February 2019 Issue

Helen Hackett

Head and Shoulders above the Rest

Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist

By Elizabeth Goldring

April 1990 Issue

Wallace Arnold

The Secret Behind Freud’s Thistle

Works on Paper

By Lucian Freud

July 1990 Issue

Anne Clark Amor

Spitting Images

Renaissance Portraits

By Lorne Campbell

March 2016 Issue

Paul Johnson

A Portrait of the Artist

Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings

By Edgar Peters Bowron

February 2016 Issue

Brian Dillon

The World is Burning

Portraits: John Berger on Artists

By John Berger (Edited by Tom Overton)

October 2015 Issue

James Hall

Striking Poses

The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits

By Simon Schama