Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Bone on Boney at miniature show
17 June 2019An 1817 miniature of Napoleon by British painter Henry Bone (1755-1834) is among the highlights at Ellison Fine Art’s exhibition of portrait miniatures this month.
Rediscovering ‘Good Design’ at Kensington Church Street show
17 June 2019'What Happened to Good Design', a summer selling exhibition at Hill House in Kensington Church Street, was inspired by a show at design shop Heal’s in 1982 of the same name. It offers works from the Arts & Crafts period and beyond.
5 Questions: James Butterwick
17 June 2019James Butterwick is a dealer in Russian art of the early 20th century in London.
Early Worcester plate among ceramics offered at 'A Collectors’ Paradise' in London
17 June 2019A rare early Worcester plate, c.1752, painted in Chinese famille verte style is offered by dealer Robyn Robb at 'A Collectors’ Paradise', the annual group selling show of pottery and porcelain in St James’s. Offered for £9500, it features a bird perched on a flowering prunus tree.
Adrian Heath works on paper go on show at London gallery
17 June 2019This abstract oil on paper is among the works on paper by the modern British painter Adrian Heath (1920-92) currently on show at St James’s gallery Alan Wheatley Art.
They said what!? The week in quotes from he art and antiques market including the call for more catalogue raisonnés
16 June 2019Just how important is BADA? And what is the most famous weapon in art history? Find out what the art and antiques trade had to say on these questions with our weekly quotes roundup.
Six places to see and buy art in London this weekend and beyond including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
14 June 2019Chelsea and Mayfair are two major centres for the art trade, particularly in the summer when events like Masterpiece and London Art Week (respectively) arrive.
Getty museum buys Stoss crucifix and Joseph Wright of Derby painting
11 June 2019The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has emerged as the buyer of two major works: Corpus Christi, a small, 15th century wooden sculpture by Veit Stoss, and Two Boys with a Bladder (1769-70), a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Windsor House Antiques sells stock in Cambridge Auction
11 June 2019Kevin Smith, owner of Windsor House Antiques, has consigned items of excess stock from the business to Cheffins Fine Art for its sale later this month.
Connect art fair to join the summer season in 2020
10 June 2019Connect – The Independent Art Fair, which debuted at London’s Mall Galleries in January, has added a June event to the 2020 calendar.
Olympia summer fair caters for decorative buyers and collectors
10 June 2019French commode forms good example of selling strategy at long-standing London event
Welsh furniture dealer offers cupboard at festival
10 June 2019Tim Bowen Antiques brings this Welsh oak cwpwrdd bara caws (bread and cheese cupboard) to the midsummer Carmarthenshire event Midsummer Cahoots at the Hall (June 22-30).
Artists as celebs: debut sculpture show plays a fame game
10 June 2019When Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), leading artist of the French Romantic school, died in 1863, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts commissioned a bust to commemorate the painter and embody his genius.
The web shop window: Sicilian giltwood casket from Anthony Outred
10 June 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Nicky Gould
10 June 2019Nicky Gould of Gould Antiques offers a range of small items including portrait miniatures, perfume bottles and various objects of vertu from the 16th-20th centuries. She next exhibits at Olympia.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including how the rediscovered “Lewis chessman” was acquired.
09 June 2019Top auction lots including a Victorian fireman’s helmet and a record-breaking coin sparked reflection this week. Read what members of the trade had to say in our quotes of the week.
Four places to see and buy art in London this weekend including Russian illustrations and Bugatti sculptures
07 June 2019Before the explosion of art shows and fairs at the end of the month, there are still plenty of places to hunt out painting and sculpture around London.
Dealer son of D-Day soldier acquires landings poster and returns to France for commemoration
06 June 2019Nigel Talbot of Grosvenor Prints recently added the Second World War poster This is the Year to his personal collection.
Marilyn Monroe earrings, necklace and more memorabilia goes under the hammer in Beverley Hills
04 June 2019In 1953, Marilyn Monroe told the world that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But a pair of rhinestone earrings going under the hammer next week with a five-figure estimate could prove to be pretty dear too.
Label fits the bill as Oxfordshire dealer sells cupboard by John Coxed
03 June 2019A chinoiserie corner cupboard bearing the paper trade label of the Queen Anne furniture maker John Coxed has been sold by Oxfordshire dealership Alexander George Fine Antiques.