There is no doubt the temporary loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum is the once-in-a-lifetime experience to rule them all. Meticulously stitched by hand by talented women, the embroidery has never returned to English soil in over 900 years since its creation around the 1070s. Although many worried for its fragile condition, visitors lucky enough to bag the £33 ticket…

To this reviewer, the American-born James McNeill Whistler will always be a printmaker first, a painter second. Alongside his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden, who compiled one of the first catalogues raisonnés of Rembrandt's prints, the pair contributed heavily to the Etching Revival in 19th-century Britain. To everyone else, however, Whistler is the painter of…