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Cedric Morris, 1940’s

Some memorable moments at the exhibition of trail-blazing modernist Vanessa Bell (b.1879) at Milton Keynes Art Gallery, including a few old friends who have passed through our gallery portals.

Joining the National Blue Plaques Panel to help give porcelaneous presence to deserving people and dwellings. Make your recommendations via HistoricEngland.org.uk

First day of filming for 13th series of #Fakeorfortune Royal Acadia Academy- a founder of the institution being in our sights….

Dora Carrington, enigmatic, forever evolving, and whose short life produced some arresting images Pallant House Gallery. Worth a trip. Above of her beloved Lytton Strachey C.1916.

Our first discovery of series 13 of FakeorFortune? is not a painting, but a tree heaving with unharvested Christmas mistletoe. Can you guess where?

Astonishing degree of realism - a millennium before the Renaissance - in this Roman funerary bust (3rd Century AD) at the Museo Correr, Venice today.

Lights, camera, bark! Gallery dog Cedric being driven to his first day’s filming for Fake or Fortune? series 13.

First day’s filming with Gallery Dog Cedric at the gallery. FakeorFortune?

Filming series 13 of Fake or Fortune? at Blenheim Palace in the Indian Room this morning.

Opening for patrons of Munch portraits at NPG last night. Brash, hit-and-miss, genius.

Fake or Fortune? verdict day for an 18th century portrait. Could it be a lost work by Angelica Kauffman, a founder of the Royal Academy? Series 13 coming this summer!

Loving the Sienna Show National Gallery It serenely marks the moment that western art becomes emotional (1280’s onwards).

A symbolic mystery… Discoloured varnish disguised not only the features and skin tone of the boy(c.1680) but also what now appears(?) to be a blue tit in his hand (old fashioned name being titmouse). Coud this be some coded message to do with the unknown child’s identification?

This almost unknown portrait of a young Henry VIII in his thirties by a Franco-Flemish artist (late 1520s) is leaving the Gallery to join an important public collection. But what is the artist trying to tell us? The ring he is holding is a mystery.

To my mind the masterpiece of the astounding Cartier show V&A I saw this morning. Commissioned by Mexican film star Maria Felix in the late 60’s, its diamond studied body is flexible, and will wrap around your neck!

The artist, Stanley Grimm, exhibited this striking portrait at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London in 1959 under the title “Chef from Antigua”. The name of the subject is currently unknown but it may well emerge. On show at Treasure House fair, Chelsea.

Publicity shots today for new series of Fake or Fortune? coming out BBC1 9.00pm 21st July.

It’s #NationalMeadowsDay! In the face of great national loss of our traditional meadows we at Plantlife - and many others - have been working hard on restoring them from the impact of intensive farming and other woes since the War. At home, twenty years of cutting and collecting