This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century

Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists

An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century

Auction house combines blue-chip works and those priced to entice new collectors

Established artists first to sell as collectors take their time over emerging talents

The painting that still languishes in a vault, despite nearly a century of squabbling

Not as bad as he has been made out to be

An exhaustive treatment of the man behind the Great Exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prince Albert and much, much more

The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections

The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness and diversity of the museum’s collections

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration

A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement

A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting

This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired

Catherine E. King's book reviewed

Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position

Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

Two books accompanying recent museum shows