An artist has used her great-grandfather's sea journals to create a tribute to him. The three diaries, written by John Henry Lowry from St Mawes, Cornwall, offer a unique insight into his career ...

An oil painting dated 1961 and believed to depict the Sir John Barrow's monument on Hoad ... sell for between £25,000 and £35,000. Two Lowry paintings sold at auction for £1.8m last month.

To my eye, he seems closer to Toulouse-Lautrec than to Lowry, given the “misfit energy” that animates both Eric’s canvases and his life story. Maybe that is the secret of art — along with ...

The Salford artist's 1961 streetscape ... It was auctioned off at the time by John Keefe, whose son Murray repeated history when he oversaw the sale of the Lowry to new owners on Wednesday.