Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
5 Questions: Paul Pfanner of Timewise Vintage Watches
27 August 2018Paul Pfanner runs Timewise Vintage Watches and next exhibits at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair (September 14-19).
Lavish church garments showing influences of other cultures go on sale in London exhibition
27 August 2018Created to impress and instruct, textiles played an important role in the history of the Catholic Church.
They said what?! The week (August 20-26, 2018) in quotes from the art and antiques market
26 August 2018Members of the trade look ahead to life post-Brexit, struggled against Trump's Chinese tariffs and considered the appeal of a painted horse this week. Read what they said in our quotes roundup.
Rare Boston Tea Party cartoon from colonial America goes under the hammer in Dallas auction
24 August 2018In a rare cartoon depicting the Boston Tea Party the Goddess of Liberty says: “Behold the Ardor of my sons and let not their brave Actions be buried in Oblivion.”
ABA and PBFA fairs change to June dates to align with other summer book events
23 August 2018The ABA and PBFA rare book fairs as well as ‘The London Map Fair’ and Etc Fairs’ ‘Bloomsbury Book Fair’ will all open during the second week of June next year, realigning dates after around 10 years.
Five highlights coming to TEFAF New York 2018
21 August 2018French female arsonists, parrot tulips and a plague of fiery snakes are among the subjects in five highlight objects in this year’s TEFAF New York Fall.
Vintage camera with rare Ross Xpres lens goes 26-times over estimate in “spectacular” result at Linconshire auction
20 August 2018A 1940s cine camera estimated at £200-300 was knocked down for £7800 at Batemans Auctions in Lincolnshire earlier this month.
London Art Week launches salon-style events for second edition to reach new audience
20 August 2018The second winter edition of London Art Week, a biannual festival that celebrates galleries and auction houses around Mayfair and St James’s, features a series of new salon-style events.
London dealer showcases powerful works by Frank Avray Wilson
20 August 2018London dealer showcases powerful works of an artist fascinated by the human condition
5 Questions: William Martindale
20 August 2018William Martindale holds an exhibition with textile specialist Jacqueline Simcox at Stoppenbach and Delestre during Asian Art in London (November 1-10).
Welsh artist Wilf Roberts drives demand
20 August 2018In his later years, Welsh painter Wilf Roberts spent time going on drives, his wife Sue at the wheel, out to the Anglesey countryside. He would set off with pencils or watercolours to sketch landscapes while she waited for him in the car, reading.
Note shows light-hearted Laura Knight
20 August 2018A cartoon by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) offers a rare and light-hearted look at her married life.
They said what!? The week (August 13-19) in quotes from the art and antiques market
19 August 2018“At that moment, the urge to buy some of his work was born…” In this edition of our weekly roundup of art and antiques quotes, a collector recalls his beginnings as he prepares to sell. Also, experts give their opinions on modern British paintings and an important Chinese vase comes to auction.
Large single-owner collection of modern Moorcroft pottery goes under the hammer in Suffolk
18 August 2018More than 200 lots of Moorcroft pottery, many of them sourced from a single-owner collection, are up for sale at the Suffolk auction house Lacy Scott & Knight next month.
John Spencer-Churchill’s eyewitness painting of Dunkirk evacuation comes to British Art Fair – VIDEO
16 August 2018John Spencer-Churchill’s (1909-92) depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk is one of the highlights at the British Art Fair.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh cabinet made for Glasgow tea room entrepreneur makes £11,000
16 August 2018A cabinet made by Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) for a Victorian tea room businesswoman has sold for £11,000 at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge.
London as the Duke of Wellington knew it: Museum of London acquires huge panorama from Sotheby’s
14 August 2018A large 19th century panorama of London, completed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, has entered the Museum of London’s permanent collection after the institution acquired it at a recent Sotheby’s auction.
A babe, a beast and Edgar Rice Burroughs bring six-figure result for Frazetta painting at US auction
14 August 2018Frank Frazetta’s painting Escape on Venus does not feature any of the pirates, zombies or ugly communists that appear in the story it accompanies. Still, the picture easily attracted enough attention to make it the top lot at a recent Heritage Auctions sale.
Hosts of BBC’s Fake or Fortune? left ‘genuinely shocked’ as supposed William Nicholson painting is dismissed by expert
13 August 2018Art dealer Philip Mould and journalist Fiona Bruce of BBC’s ‘Fake or Fortune?’ returned to screens last night, arguing that a still-life painting was the work of Modern British artist William Nicholson (1872-1949).
Who was Mondo? Japanese art dealer discovers unusual dragon sea king netsuke
13 August 2018Dealer Rosemary Bandini, who specialises in Japanese netsuke, calls a figure that she sold recently one of her most frustrating yet intriguing discoveries to date.