“Yesterday put an end to the business of the Federal Convention. Enclosed is a copy of the Constitution it agreed to recommend.”

Collectors are responding positively as dealers put overlooked female artists in the spotlight

Two separate legal cases involving leading London art dealers have concluded in the High Court.

When Hartleys’ valuer Daisy Hodgson was rummaging through an old biscuit tin in a family home in north London she spotted something that she thought might have great potential.

Mullock’s Auctions has relocated its saleroom closer to Telford.

The philanthropist, retired businessman and one-time Olympian bobsledder for Canada, Sir Christopher Ondaatje, chose a good time to sell a painting depicting a young 19th century black woman.

A portrait of art dealer Algernon Moses Marsden (1847-1920) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) has been purchased for the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery with funding from descendants of the sitter.

Dreweatts and Forum Auctions are to hold their first joint sale this month.

The search is on for a new owner of The Emporium in Hungerford.

A Christmas selling show of more than 100 antiques will be offered at interior design and decorating firm Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler’s Pimlico Road showroom.

News of historic premises being revived, a closure – plus a new outlet starting in Skipton

More than 20 yards of Morris & Co fabric and two Howard & Son chairs were among a group of lots consigned to auction in Wiltshire with a provenance to Haselbech Hall, Northampton, and the Bower Ismay family.