A remarkable find emerged this winter: a sketchbook attributed to John Russell, tucked away in a box at a country estate sale in Devon. Although...
William Wilberforce sat for John Russell in the early 1790s, at the height of his campaign to end the British slave trade. The portrait is...
In 1797, John Russell unveiled The Face of the Moon, a mesmerising chalk and pastel rendering of the full lunar disc. Unlike many of his...





