Patrick Skene-Catling

On the charm offensive

Derek Hill (1916–2000), writes Bruce Arnold, was an English representational landscape and portrait painter of ‘haunting and evocative creative spirituality that is perhaps indefinable’.

issue 27 November 2010

  • Derek Hill

    Bruce Arnold

    Quartet, pp. 448

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY 3 MONTHS FOR $5
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Start your 3-month trial today for just $5 and subscribe to more than one view

Read next

Trending

Leon Mangasarian

The AfD is surging in the polls

Friedrich Merz, the victor of German elections in February is struggling even before he takes office. Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) – the election losers – used coalition talks to ram through their policies in a 144-page pact to serve as junior partner to Merz’s Christian Democrats. The accord shies away from any big reforms of the economy, of the creaking social welfare state and even from the no-brainer of reinstating military conscription to help deter Russia. The agreement is so bad and

More on art history

Also by Patrick Skene-Catling

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in