This week's attack by climate protesters is the third time that the National Gallery masterpiece has been recruited to articulate contemporary social or cultural concerns
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
The US family who owned it believed it was a 20th-century reproduction
Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to forgotten talents
14 preparatory sketches of members of the royal family
Claim against Agnew’s dismissed though the painting ruled not autograph
The gallery catalogued both works as genuine, though experts made no secret of their ambivalence
Prices are rising for the Modern British neo-romantic
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's
As recalled by Dick Kingzett of Agnew’s
A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire