Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Fair switches to Birmingham’s NEC to avoid IACF confusion
18 September 2023An art and antiques fair proposed to launch at NEAC Stoneleigh this December has changed its dates and venue and will now take place at Birmingham’s NEC.
Food fest full of peril for peasants comes to London gallery
18 September 2023A group of engravings depicting 17th and 18th century Neapolitan food festivals is being offered by a London dealer.
5 Questions with dealer Jane Burgett of Dansk Silver
11 September 2023Jane Burgett of Dansk Silver is an exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair.
Feathers, flowers, fruit at an art fair... from the comfort of home
11 September 2023As the in-person fairs calendar starts off this autumn, the fifth annual Armchair Art Fair catalogue hits doorsteps.
LAPADA Fair has landed
11 September 2023Popular art and antiques fair returns with new partners after several years break.
Forty flock to sell at The Northern Antiques Fair
11 September 2023As the LAPADA Fair relaunches in the south, The Northern Antiques Fair returns for its third outing at Tennants of Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
Regency Coade stone torchère lights up Fitzwilliam Museum collection
04 September 2023A Regency Coade stone torchère has been acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum from West Midlands dealership Thomas Coulborn & Sons.
5 Questions with Beth Swaab of Bink Fine Art
04 September 2023Beth Swaab of Bink Fine Art specialises in Modern British, Impressionist and 19th century pictures.
Picture a new way of exhibiting: Michael Hoppen moves to Holland Park
04 September 2023Specialist who left Chelsea for a move across west London feels the existing gallery model is ‘tired’
Seoul mates: British dealers stand at second Frieze in Korean capital
04 September 2023Les Enluminures offers a European emerald and enamel solitaire ring, c.1680-1720, at the second edition of Frieze Seoul.
Studio pottery in focus at North Yorkshire’s Thirsk Hall
04 September 2023This stoneware cream glaze vase, c.1960, by Bernard Leach (1887- 1979) is included in the programme of exhibitions at Willoughby Gerrish this autumn.
The web shop window: naïve 19th century zodiac paintings
04 September 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Larger and longer: the new Winter Olympia look
28 August 2023The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia has a larger and longer staging planned for this year.
Literary agent Pollinger's collection sheds light on Alcock pottery
28 August 2023A large collection of porcelain from the factory of Samuel Alcock (1799-1848) amassed by a well-known literary agent is coming up for sale.
The web shop window: pair of Blue John lanterns
28 August 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Pangolin London: ‘5000 works handled in 15 years’
28 August 2023Pangolin anniversary exhibition is one of several highlighting British art this autumn in London
5 Questions with Japanese arts specialist Malcolm Fairley
28 August 2023Malcolm Fairley of St James’s deals in Japanese applied arts of the 19th and early 20th centuries with a focus on cloisonné enamels and metalwork.
Dealer news in brief including Abbott and Holder's 'affordable art' web page
28 August 2023A roundup of news and events from around the trade
Chelsea ‘Gold Anchor’ vase joins portrait bought by V&A
21 August 2023The Victoria and Albert Museum has bought the only known version of a vase produced by the Chelsea porcelain factory during its ‘Gold Anchor’ period.
Natural history collecting? It rocks
21 August 2023Over the past decade the buyer profile has widened as fossils and minerals become decorative objects