Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Grade I-listed Elizabethan manor wins Sotheby’s-sponsored restoration award
15 August 2017Glynde Place in East Sussex has won the 2017 Historic Houses Association Restoration Award, sponsored by auction firm Sotheby’s.
Australian media magnate’s art and antiques collection heads to auction in Sydney
15 August 2017Art and antiques owned by the late businessman James Fairfax will be offered at auction next month.
Christie’s to auction artworks from the late New York collector Paul F Walter
14 August 2017Works from pioneering photography collector Paul F Walter will be auctioned at Christie’s next month.
Trade slams ‘misleading’ ivory market report
14 August 2017The art and antiques trade has criticised a report on the ivory market, arguing it “fails to distinguish between genuine works of art and the trade in modern carvings made from tusks”.
Behind the scenes at Fake or Fortune?
14 August 2017The BBC’s hit series Fake or Fortune? returns to our screens on Sunday August 20. ATG's Laura Chesters went behind the scenes for insight into the making of the show and to ask why the trade should tune in.
Fine Art Bourse learns the naked truth about Facebook nudity rules
14 August 2017Tim Goodman’s Fine Art Bourse (FAB) has fallen foul of Facebook’s nudity rules.
Mayfair art agent faces US trial after WH Smith Viscountess pursues him in New York court
10 August 2017Mayfair art agent Timothy Sammons is facing a fresh legal battle over the sale of paintings and could face extradition to the US.
Goodman’s Fine Art Bourse falls foul of Facebook’s nudity rules
10 August 2017Tim Goodman’s Fine Art Bourse (FAB) has entered into an advertising row with Facebook over nudity rules at the social media giant.
Antiques Roadshow ceramics expert leads calls to save Poole Pottery studio
10 August 2017Fieldings Auctioneers founder Will Farmer has lent his support to Poole Pottery which is facing eviction from its Dorset home.
Postbox theft sparks fear of rising problem in the UK
08 August 2017The theft of a 19th century postbox in Asthall Leigh in west Oxfordshire earlier this year has led local councillors to fear criminals are targeting specific postboxes to sell on for hundreds of pounds.
Tributes paid following the death of former V&A boss Martin Roth
07 August 2017Martin Roth, the former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, has died aged 62.
Mark Law’s Dreweatts deal folds
07 August 2017Mark Law’s deal to buy auction firm Dreweatts and the Mallett brand from stamp dealer group Stanley Gibbons has collapsed.
Malt House Emporium launches petition to stay in Stroud home
07 August 2017A Stroud antiques centre has launched a petition to stay after its landlord issued a notice to end the lease.
London street event is anonymous way to put a name on the map
07 August 2017Design will meet art and antiques at a new street event timed to coincide with The London Design Festival this September. The art and antiques dealers of Church Street in London’s Lisson Grove have decided it is an ideal moment to launch their first-ever street party on September 24.
Revenues up but profits down for Sotheby’s
07 August 2017The art market is “neither frothy nor depressed”, according to Sotheby’s chief executive Tad Smith.
Sotheby’s profit slips but revenues grow in second quarter thanks to higher lot values
03 August 2017Sotheby’s revenues for the second quarter of 2017 rose 5% but its profit fell 14% to $76.9m due to a rise in expenses and a decline at its financial services arm.
Mod Brit art gallery appeals for funds to keep Christopher Wood’s ‘China Dogs’ painting
03 August 2017Modern British art specialist Pallant House Gallery hopes to raise the final thousands of pounds needed to keep Christopher Wood’s ‘China Dogs in a St Ives Window’ (1926) in its Chichester gallery.
Antiques dealer alerts trade to fraud after scam involving 18th century painting
01 August 2017An antiques and art dealer is asking the trade to be aware of a scam after a painting was fraudulently purchased from the gallery in Wiltshire.
Extension given to Mark Law to complete purchase of auction house Dreweatts
01 August 2017The completion of Mark Law’s deal to buy Dreweatts from stamp dealer group Stanley Gibbons has been delayed for a second time due to a change in financial backing for the £2.4m purchase.
S Franses wins latest court appeal over right to stay in its central London gallery
26 July 2017St James’s textile specialist S Franses has won an appeal in court for the right to stay in its gallery in central London.