Seems the sort of day for a murky view of the countryside -- Eric Ravilious's Cerne Abbas Giant (1939, Private collection) is in the British Landscapes show at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…

Last chance to catch Stanley Spencer in Suffolk @SpencerCookham in Berkshire, which closes Nov 1. We saw the exhibition late last year @GH_Sudbury: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. This is a detail from Southwold (1937, @AbdnArtMuseums).

It's your last chance to see the free show of Joseph Wright's candlelight paintings @derbymuseums, closing Nov 1. We saw it @NationalGallery last year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. Pictured: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, National Gallery.

Now on @vangoghmuseum in Amsterdam: James McNeill Whistler. We caught the previous version of this exhibition @Tate Britain in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. Pictured: Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75, Tate).

Last chance to see the enigmatic art of Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Kunsthaus in Zurich; closes Oct 25. We saw this show @MuseoThysse in Madrid earlier this year: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. Pictured is Interior, Young Woman Seen from Behind, c. 1904, Randers Kunstmuseum.

It's your last chance to see Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism, which closes Oct 18 @TownerGallery in Eastbourne. Read about this absorbing seaside show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. This is Eric Ravilious's The Lifeboat (1938, Private collection)

Now on @MuseeLouvre in Paris, the astonishingly intense paintings of Francisco de Zurbarán. We saw this show @NationalGallery in London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com…. Pictured: St Margaret of Antioch, about 1630-34, National Gallery.

Women artists in new shows this month in France and Belgium: Mary Cassatt @MuseeOrsay in Paris Séraphine Louis @PompidouMetz Jenny Montigny at MSK in Ghent Our October round-up with much more: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com… Pictured: Cassatt's In the Loge, 1878, @mfaboston

Women artists with new exhibitions in Germany this month: Women of the Blue Rider incl. Gabriele Münter at Museum Wiesbaden Leonor Fini @SCHIRN in Frankfurt Our October round-up: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com… Pic: Münter's Promenade along the Seine (c. 1904, Kunsthalle Emden)

Old mistresses in new shows: Michaelina Wautier & more @nasjonalmuseet, Oslo Artemisia Gentileschi at Museo degli Innocenti, Florence Catharina v. Hemessen at Snijders&Rockoxhuis, Antwerp art-exhibitions.blogspot.com… Pic: Wautier's Education of the Virgin, 1656, Hoogsteder Foundation