Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

An exhibition on colour is on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford until 18 February: Colour Revolution. Victorian Art, Fashion & D...

[Written by John Aplin] 100 Years Ago: Three Letters by Ricketts from January 1924 (part 2) Gordon Bottomley was not alone in having to miss...

[This week's anniversary blog (number 650) is written by John Aplin, editor of the correspondence of Gordon Bottomley and Thomas Sturge ...

From 1897, Ricketts had copies of the publications of the Vale Press ( Hacon & Ricketts, At the Sign of the Dial)  printed on vellum in ...

In 1876, Ricketts's father Charles Robert painted four warships in Portsmouth Harbour. The painting is now for sale at BADA (the British...

Just before Christmas, an edition of letters from Charles Shannon to Charles Ricketts has been published: Old Chap, Dear Ridgeley, Old Chump...

The British writer and aesthete Harold Acton (1904-1994), born and died in Villa La Pietra outside Florence, knew the likes of George Orwell...

The collections at the V&A London include a drawing by Ricketts dated - rather broadly - to 1900-1930. It is an unsigned and undated stu...

In November 1911, Charles Shannon was sent to Amsterdam by the Royal Academy to collect a painting by Jozef Israels who had died in August. ...

Handwritten notes in private press books are quite rare. Universities used to lend their books to students and professors, even private pres...

The ' Two Day Sale of Fine Art & Antiques, including Oriental, Porcelain, and Works of Art ' at Canterbury Auction Galleries, Ca...