Buckingham Palace has been opened for tourists. It contains some great pictures, most are from the Netherlands.

The opening of Buckingham Palace to paying tourists this month at 8 pounds ($12) a head hasn’t quite lived up to its advance publicity; what does, these days? The mere possession of a ticket, raved the New York Times last June, “will have the magical properties of fairy gold…

Alongside an American painter sat Dutch Corry Riet, who was paralyzed by polio at the age of five. She learned to hold a brush with her teeth and makes a living from her paintings.

Charles Pasche was born with no right arm and only a useless stump where his left arm should have been. Like many such “congenital amputees” (cause unknown), he learned to do an amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at…

In Paintings of Dick Ket, a painter in the school known as magic realism, paint had started to slide down because of impure linseed oil.

In the great wave of romanticism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, some painters became so absorbed in expression that they lost sight of the limitations of their materials. Ralph Albert Blakelock, the American romantic landscapist (1847-1919), delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which…

In the Netherlands, which has produced some of the world’s finest painters and fakers of old masters, experts decided to stage a “Fake and Genuine” exhibition.

The Netherlands, which has produced some of the world’s finest painters, has also produced some of the finest fakers of old masters. *Partly for fun and partly to show the public “what the essence of a work of art is,” Amsterdam’s experts decided two years ago to stage a “Fake…

Last week in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, went on view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place.

The great Dutchman, Rembrandt, lived in Amsterdam most of his life, put into his greatest pictures the faces of Amsterdam’s burghers, surgeons, soldiers. Last week in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, went on view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place. Included…