Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Cupid and Psyche after conservation. Oil on canvas, 140 x 168 cm. Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust for display at The Courtauld Gallery, 2004 The Courtauld...

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Dream of Human Life, c. 1533 ©The Courtauld Gallery ‘Drawings the like of which have never been seen…’ Giorgio Vasari, 1568 Michelangelo’s masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of...