
Maev Kennedy
Arts and Archaeology Journalist at Freelance
Maev Kennedy is a freelance arts and archaeology journalist
Articles
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2 months ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Maev Kennedy |Hannah McGivern |Bendor Grosvenor
It was bad luck for the owner of a portrait of a lovely young Roman model, when the future King Edward VII walked into the artist’s studio in February 1859, and fell for her immediately. The painting had already been promised to and paid for by the collector George de Monbrison, but the 17-year-old prince really wanted her.
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2 months ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Maev Kennedy
A spectacular hoard of Iron Age metalwork—over 800 pieces including ornate cauldrons, elegantly decorated harness for at least 14 ponies and 28 iron chariot tyres—has been safely removed from a site at Melsonby in Yorkshire. Dating back some 2,000 years, the hoard is one of the largest and most significant finds in the UK from the period, and regarded as of international importance. The pieces were deliberately buried, probably in the first century of the Roman conquest of southern England.
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Mar 10, 2025 |
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Hannah McGivern |Martin Bailey |Maev Kennedy
Specialists at the Wallace Collection in London have attributed an 18th-century work depicting the Grand Canal in Venice to Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of the famed Venetian view artist Giovanni Antonio Canal—better known as Canaletto. Canaletto was previously thought to have made the painting. The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (around 1737) shows the church of San Simeone Piccolo on the right and the demolished church of Santa Lucia on the left.
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Mar 10, 2025 |
theartnewspaper.com | Joe Ware |Hannah May Kilroy |Maev Kennedy |Amah-Rose Abrams
The announcement that a mysterious portrait may be the only depiction of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane Grey created during her lifetime overlooks research undertaken nearly 20 years ago, an art historian has said. This follows the painting going on display at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire after English Heritage published analysis claiming to shed fresh light on its sitter and curious backstory.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |David D'Arcy |Maev Kennedy
Berwick-upon-Tweed is sited in historically and famously contested land, set hard by the border between the English and the Scots and changing hands between the two nations some 14 times.
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