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Private View: The Lively World of British Art

by Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Bryan Robertson & John Russell

Other books by Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon), Bryan Robertson and John Russell

Francis Bacon by John Russell

Our most recommended books

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine

Neglected Genius: The Diaries of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1808–1846 by Benjamin Robert Haydon

Diaries by Eva Hesse

The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. Collingwood

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Francis Bacon
by John Russell

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
by Lisa Jardine

Neglected Genius: The Diaries of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1808–1846
by Benjamin Robert Haydon

Diaries
by Eva Hesse

The Life of John Ruskin
by W. G. Collingwood