Julia Margaret Cameron ‘Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. Historian and essayist’ 1867

Happy 150th, Gustav Klimt!

Will Cotton

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Jane Burden as Queen Guinevere, 1858

Pablo Picasso

La Vie, 1903

Gustav Klimt

The Friends, 1917

Norman Seeff

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe

Norman Seeff

Blondie on the Balcony, 1979

Norman Seeff

Carly Simon

Vincent Poole

Does my bum look big in this? 2010

Ed Hodgkinson

Madelaine, looking down

Ulrich Lamsfuss

Stefan Jellheden, 2004

Julia Goldman

Swimmers, 2010

Olivia Bee

Édouard Manet

Portrait of Émile Zola, 1868

Today is the anniversary of Édouard Manet’s death. Allow me to share some of my favourite paintings by this master of the turn-of-the-century avant-garde.