the Slade

Admirable in their awfulness – the siblings Gus and Gwen John

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The self-styled Gypsy King and his reclusive sister seemed polar opposites – but both painters were selfish, obsessive monsters, according to Judith Mackrell

‘Street musicians’; and (right) portrait of Neville Lyttelton by Randolph Schwabe

Waspish traditionalist

27 February 2016 9:00 am

Randolph Schwabe (b. 1885) was a measured man in art and in life. His drawings are meticulous, closely observed models…

Loneliness and the love of friends

14 November 2015 9:00 am

When Hugh and Mirabel Cecil’s book In Search of Rex Whistler was published in 2012, the late Brian Sewell reviewed…