Century-old mystery of stained glass windows that inspired Vincent van Gogh solved as they are located in Hampshire church

The location of two stained glass windows that inspired Vincent van Gogh has baffled historians for almost 150 years.



Experts have been intrigued ever since the post-impressionist painter wrote about seeing their designs in London in 1876.



For more than a century, no-one had a clue which windows he was referring to but now an art historian has finally traced them to a remote village in Hampshire.



After a bit of detective work, Max Donnelly found the two, foot-feet high windows to St Andrew's church in Owslebury near Winchester.



The windows were commissioned by the Earl of Northesk to show his wife and daughter who both pre-deceased him.





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People in Glasgow boys paintings revealed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10318311

BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum announce major new year-long partnership

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50032

Did Constable fake a pastoral scene in one of his best-loved paintings, The Cornfield?

With its vivid depiction of the English countryside, it has been a popular painting since Victorian times.



But anyone who goes in search of the idyllic landscape shown in The Cornfield by John Constable could be in for a disappointment.



The artist may have faked his most famous pastoral scene, startling evidence suggests.





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Why I've rediscovered Victorian art - Jonathon Jones

The news of a lost – and now found – Ford Madox Brown painting and an exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelite painter fail to excite me. But the cultural legacy of the Victorians does



http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/aug/12/victorian-art-ford-madox-brown

Is this Jack the Ripper?

A new book sensationally claims to unmask Jack the Ripper - as the Scotland Yard detective who led the hunt for the serial killer.

A Spanish investigator names Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline as the man who brutally murdered at least five women in Victorian London.

Jose Luis Abad, 84, makes the claim in his book 'Jack the Ripper: The most intelligent murderer in history', published in Spain this week.

Mr Abad is a handwriting expert and bases his claims on a comparison of Chief Inspector Abberline's writing with that of Jack the Ripper's diary - a 63 page document that surfaced in Liverpool in 1992.


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Amazing pictures of Titanic captain Edward Smith's bathtub intact on the bottom of the ocean

This amazing picture of Titanic Captain Edward Smith's private bathtub is among a series of spectacular images that have been shown for the first time during a court case into the salvage rights.

The porcelain tub, which has intricate plumbing for both freshwater and seawater, has sat in the captain's cabin at the bottom of the ocean for almost 100 years.

Captain Smith went down with his ship on April 14,1912. He was one of an estimated 1500 people who lost their lives in the tragedy.



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