A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

A painting worth tens of thousands of pounds has been taken after it was left on a train. The owner of Terry Frost's 1954 work Blue Harbour was travelling from London Euston to Crewe. It was left ...

“Snow Storm—Steam Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth ... the more than 300 surviving oil paintings by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Now regarded as the greatest English painter, Turner ran a ...