Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation as one of the finest genre painters of children
Palladio Minimus: A Georgian dollhouse and the 18th century miniature world
Only a small handful of early English doll- houses survive, and most lack a complete provenance going back to original owners and makers
Anna Katharine Green and Charles Rohlfs: Artistic collaborators
On the artistic collaboration of husband and wife Charles Rohlfs and Anna Katharine Green
Not for sale: An exquisitely made collection of miniature furniture
An exquisitely made collection of miniature furniture that was bought, sold, and bought again by Connecticut antiques dealers takes up permanent residence
The ‘It’ chair
The legendary decorator Frances Elkins made it popular in the 1930s, but her so-called loop chair goes back to the eighteenth century as a surviving set of examples attests
The baptism of Pocahontas
A complex set of national attitudes and assumptions come to light in John Gadsby Chapman’s 1840 mural