Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
5 Questions: Picture dealer John Robertson
02 January 2023John Robertson deals in paintings and is among the exhibitors at the Mayfair Antiques and Fine Art Fair in January.
Art & Antiques for Everyone: no fairs to be held in 2023
19 December 2022Art & Antiques for Everyone, the fair held three times a year at Birmingham’s NEC, has been scrapped for 2023, raising concerns that it will never return.
Zinkeisen packs a punch
19 December 2022Anna Zinkeisen (1901-76), who painted 'The Boxing Match' depicting a bout from 1928, enjoyed publicity from the painting at the time.
Works by leading linocut artist Sybil Andrews offered at Osborne Samuel
19 December 2022In its stable of women artists Modern British art specialist Osborne Samuel features Sybil Andrews (1898-1992).
Laura Knight: her ‘time has come’
19 December 2022Dealer Karen Taylor is among those noting that “collectors seem to be following the trend set by museums and buying more work by women”.
Appreciation that’s long overdue
19 December 2022Collectors are responding positively as dealers put overlooked female artists in the spotlight
Writer on air raid warden duty
19 December 2022This wartime portrait of the writer Amelia Defries shows her in the role of an ARP warden in Kensington.
Collector interview: Museum plays its part covering the modern-day movers and shakers
19 December 2022ATG talks to two collectors exhibiting works The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter
Gallery puts Lartigue in limelight
19 December 2022Compact Paris exhibition includes 19 works with a ‘super provenance’ to the artist’s wife
Mars collection lands in Manhattan
19 December 2022Anyone familiar with HG Wells’ 'War of the Worlds' knows that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one – but the things that do make it come with some serious firepower.
Surrealist in the spotlight
19 December 2022Works by Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) have been rising in popularity.
The web shop window: late 19th century Welsh quilt
19 December 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Mark Hill launches at Pantiles Arcade in Tunbridge Wells
13 December 2022Television antiques expert Mark Hill unveils his new premises in Tunbridge Wells this week.
The web shop window: early 20th century rocking horses
12 December 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Anthony Bernbaum of The Peartree Collection
12 December 2022Anthony Bernbaum runs The Peartree Collection specialising in Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau silver.
Benson attribution is fur enough
12 December 2022Portrait now firmly credited to a Northern Renaissance master stars in Old Masters show
Gregory’s eye on the Needles
12 December 2022This oil on canvas of 'Royal Dorset Yawl at the Needles' is the work of Charles Gregory (1849-1920) and is included in a single-owner collection on offer at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.
‘Quintessentially English’ artist Eurich put in a London spotlight
12 December 2022Waterhouse & Dodd is hosting an exhibition in London of 25 oil paintings by Richard Eurich (1903-92) coinciding with the publication of a new online catalogue raisonné for the artist.
The web shop window: walnut desk chair
05 December 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Frances Hodgkins highlights in New Zealand exhibition
05 December 2022The latest catalogue from Jonathan Grant Gallery in New Zealand includes 'Pergola', a c.1936 gouache on paper by Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947).