Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
The web shop window: Chippendale period satinwood and marquetry desk
17 May 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
The head masters from Africa
17 May 2021Exhibition at firm’s new premises focuses on headdress and headwear
Portrait sitter was central figure in a story of sex and scandal
17 May 2021This late 17th century portrait depicts Lady Frances Brudenell, Countess of Newburgh (c.1677-1736), an early victim of salacious journalism.
5 Questions: Alex Maas of Box House Antiques
17 May 2021Alex Maas is a third generation dealer who heads Box House Antiques in Lymington, Hampshire, specialising in English antique furniture and objets d’art.
Shutler discovers Dresser and Godwin rarities
17 May 2021This prototype side chair by pioneering Victorian designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was discovered during the pandemic.
Aubrey Beardsley: magic prints
10 May 2021Drawings can sell for six figures but a more affordable way to own work by the artist exists
The web shop window: English bureau plat which appeared in James Bond film Dr No
10 May 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Spitting image: Napoleon mocked
10 May 2021London gallery devotes catalogue to items from the era to mark bicentenary of his death
Fern favourites at dealer exhibition
10 May 2021These pressed Darjeeling ferns feature in an album compiled and mounted by Phoebe Jaffrey in 1882.
5 Questions: Janice Kehoe of Solo Antiques
10 May 2021Janice Kehoe established Solo Antiques in 2004 and specialises in Art Nouveau and Art Deco sculpture and glass as well as the Arts & Crafts movement.
Ex-dealer now author writes about the young at art
10 May 2021Retired antiques dealer, broadcaster and author Jeremy Cooper has published his latest novel, 'Bolt from the Blue' (Fitzcarraldo Editions. RRP £12.99).
Nicholas Parsons collection offered by WR Harvey at Buxton fair
03 May 2021Items belonging to the late comedian and entertainer Nicholas Parsons (1923-2020) are being unveiled at The Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair in Derbyshire – the first ‘in person’ event of its type to take place in England this year.
Mould loves a fresh discovery
26 April 2021Show focuses on how latest technology and techniques can reassess portraits and paintings.
Tomes tell story of a 1900s ‘fake or fortune’
26 April 2021These weighty tomes contain the complete transcripts from a high-profile court case involving a Mayfair dealership in the early 1900s.
5 Questions: Clementine Perrins
26 April 2021Clementine Perrins is co-founder of online Contemporary art gallery Crean & Company. Her 20-year career spans various areas of the art world, with experience promoting art fairs, launching galleries and managing private collections.
Buyers awake to opportunities
26 April 2021The Osborne Studio Gallery, specialist in contemporary sporting paintings and bronzes, has sold this painting by artist Hubert de Watrigant (b.1954) for £18,000.
The web shop window: George Tinworth mouse
26 April 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Show with Pissarro family value
26 April 2021This wintry landscape, Route Enneigée avec maison, environs d’Éragny, was painted in 1885 by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).
New shops and a new book – the latest updates from across the world of art and antiques
22 April 2021A change in ownership at dealership Abbott and Holder is among the latest updates this week.
Print fair now runs as a tour of London
19 April 2021Dozens of London galleries are primed to open their doors to the public for the capital’s first physical mass art event in months.