01/12/2025
In a special supplement this month we celebrate works of art bought by public collections across the United Kingdom, the export of which had been deferred, allowing their purchase to take place. They range in date from antiquities to the 1940s and include outstanding works by artists such as Fra Angelico, Pietro Lorenzetti, Anthony van Dyck, Canaletto, George Stubbs, Sir Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner, Edouard Manet, Salvador Dalí and Barbara Hepworth, along with splendid decorative arts, as well as major archival and documentary acquisitions. The collections that they have found homes in over the past twenty years can be visited in Canterbury, Oxford, Cambridge, Hull, Barnard Castle, Cardiff, Leeds, Wakefield, Stoke-on-Trent, Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as in London.
A rich array of articles also appear this month, which feature new studies of Baroque hunting garb, an architectural tour by James Gibbs and a ‘lost’ history painting by Benjamin West. We also publish fascinating research on Nehemiah Partridge, an early colonial American painter of portraits, whose hitherto unknown period of work in Jamaica is highlighted. Artemisia Gentileschi’s work and career have been the focus of detailed reappraisal over recent years; the latest developments are revealed in the December issue through a close analysis of the documentation connected with her time in London.
Reviews encompass major exhibitions on Boccaccio Boccaccino, Georges de La Tour, Michaelina Wautier, Marie Antoinette and Leonora Carrington, while the opening of the new Schroder Gallery at the Holburne Museum, Bath, is also assessed. Books that receive expert scrutiny include the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Lucian Freud, along with studies of Taddeo di Bartolo, Walter Osborne, Mies van der Roe, Picasso’s sketchbooks and Roberto Longhi.
Discover the full list of content: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/202512-2147483722?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+25+issue+promo
December's Editorial: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/editorial/hogarths-grand-manner?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+25+issue+promo+editorial
This month's free review: https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/reviewed-work/the-new-renaissance-gallery?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Dec+25+issue+promo+free+rev
