John Illsley rose to fame as the bassist of the Dire Straits, but nowadays you're more likely to find him in an art studio.

The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, ...

Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, didn't meet the same miserable end as some of Britain's other country homes. Instead, it was ...

A history of Ireland’s original setter — the elegant, intelligent breed saved from extinction by devoted breeders and ...

When he noticed an uncanny resemblance between John Singer Sargent’s painting of Virginie Gautreau and a Cecil Beaton ...

An early Rolex Oyster — arguably the most famous watch in Rolex history — is to be auctioned off by Sotherby’s in Geneva, ...

It proved an inspired choice: he reinvented still life as a genre and found fame in the process. Now, the Courtauld Institute ...

Jane Wheatley reports on an innovative project to restore Britain’s once plentiful native oyster reefs in Tyne & Wear.

The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm.

The 800-person jamboree and silent auction— tickets at £2,000 apiece — is being billed as London’s answer to the Met Gala, ...

Now is the time to firstly, hug a tree, and secondly, plant some more — in increasingly imaginative ways.