Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Rutherston eases market woes
29 March 2021Trading with EU member states has become more difficult and expensive since the UK left the European Union, but one dealer may have found a way to avoid the bureaucratic hurdles.
The web shop window: Portland stone chimney piece
29 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Anthony Bridgman
29 March 2021Anthony Bridgman is head of restoration at Westland London where he has worked since the 1990s. Established by Geoff Westland in 1969, the firm deals in architectural and decorative antiques and has built one of the largest collections of antique chimney pieces in the world, with some 750 examples.
Buckles go under the microscope at Wartski
29 March 2021These gold-mounted hardstone buckles are among only a few surviving examples of jewellery by the Dresden master goldsmith Johann Christian Neuber (1736-1808).
Pru’s view of a gritty world
29 March 2021Gravel pit subject was typical of artist’s move towards mundane subjects, as exhibition shows
There once was an artist called Lear…
22 March 2021…whose painting skill is now clear… as a first selling exhibition for 30 years underlines
The web shop window: Ada Lovelace's first-edition copy of key mathematical text
22 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: textiles dealer Esther Fitzgerald
22 March 2021Esther Fitzgerald handles textiles from across the globe covering a time span of 2000 years. She has been trading for three decades and is based in Hampstead, London.
Sickert view of ‘Kikely’ offered at Essex gallery
22 March 2021Walter Sickert (1860-1942) first met Cicely Hey at a public lecture in 1923. The very next day Hey arrived at his studio in Fitzroy Street and continued to sit for Sickert over the next decade.
Just a Few things you may be interested in
22 March 2021Items assembled by well-known antiques dealer Ted Few will go under the hammer at London auction house Roseberys.
Pandemic? A perfect opportunity
15 March 2021Spotlight on two London art businesses launched despite the challenges of lockdown
The web shop window: Pablo Picasso doodle
15 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: vintage wristwatches specialist Alex Stevens
15 March 2021Alex Stevens began selling collectables aged 14, going on to specialise in vintage wristwatches. He launched Alex Stevens Vintage in late 2020.
William Hazlitt portrayed at his ‘great hope’ stage
15 March 2021This rediscovered portrait depicts a youthful-looking William Hazlitt (1778-1830).
The 1970s new wave of ceramics flows to Wiltshire
15 March 2021British Studio Ceramic is Messums Wiltshire’s third annual show.
Cooper Events springs back into action
08 March 2021West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is targeting a late spring return following the government announcement that hospitality venues would be permitted to reopen indoors as part of ‘stage three’ of its timetable for easing Covid-19 restrictions in England.
William James joins the 'fifty' line-up at Richard Green
08 March 2021Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.
Dealer hails artist Hennell as a genius
08 March 2021Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’
Trade tastes a virtual slice of the Big Apple
08 March 2021Without the usual January influx of collectors, curators and dealers to the Big Apple, two significant art-buying dealer events decided to go virtual. For some exhibitors, the results were better than expected.
The web shop window: Regency mahogany wine cooler
08 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.