Paul Caffrey gives an account of Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Ireland’s leading portrait painter, and the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in this, the bicentenary year of the artist’s death
paul Caffrey gives a thumbnail sketch of 18th-century society drawn from the worlds of art, academia and the stage, as seen in the Comerford Collection
Phyllis Arnold continues the miniaturist’s art of capturing informal portraits of loved ones, writes Paul Caffrey
The class of 2019 redefines what characterises visual culture today through their individual practices, writes Paul Caffrey