19th Century British Art
This sector includes Romantic painting, Victorian art, British Orientalism and Pre-Raphaelite art.
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Fine Art Society’s Edinburgh exhibition features old view of an evolving city
24 April 2017James Howe’s (1780-1836) c.1817 All Hallow’s Fair on Calton Hill shows an event that was already a thing of the past when the picture was completed.
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Victorian fair painting sells at Antiques for Everyone
13 April 2017Charles Hunt’s painting “All the Fun of the Fair” is among the pieces that sold at the recent Antiques for Everyone Fair in Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC).
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Favourite of the cavalry commands top lot in Oxford
05 April 2017A good mix of traditional and modern pictures drew decent bidding at Mallams’ (20% buyer’s premium) on March 16.
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Dillon’s majestic Madeira
01 April 2017A trio of watercolours painted by British topographical artist Frank Dillon (1823-1909) were among the highlights of Diamond Mills’ (15% buyer’s premium) March 8 sale in Felixstowe, Suffolk.
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Pick of the Week: Leighton’s house record for House
01 April 2017The highest price for a picture sold in the regions this year came when a large painting by Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922) drew dramatic bidding at House & Son (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Bournemouth on March 21.
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Perspectives from a Grand Tour
01 April 2017Private works on a European theme yield strong prices in Cambridgeshire sale...
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Painting by Russian artist Pokhitonov among auction lots from private London club
29 March 2017A private members’ club in London is selling a collection of paintings that once hung on the walls of its grand dining room, drawing room and corridors.
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Healthy appetite for right Victorians
25 March 2017Rare painting by 19th century American artist achieves record price at Bonhams
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Edmund Blair Leighton painting sells for £240,000 at Bournemouth auction
21 March 2017A major price in the English regions came earlier today for a Victorian picture as Bournemouth saleroom House & Son took a £240,000 bid for an Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922) painting.
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Early Dandie Dinmont terriers discovered in Chelsea Fair painting
08 March 2017A painting coming to The Chelsea Antiques, Art & Design Fair is the earliest representation of the Dandie Dinmont, a small breed of Scottish terrier.
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Bonhams sells John Constable’s Flatford Lock sketch at £720,000
08 December 2016A preparatory sketch by John Constable was knocked down for £720,000 at Bonhams earlier today.
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Rare Nelson miniature portrait surfaces and sells at auction for £14,000
29 November 2016A small and previously unrecorded portrait of Lord Nelson sold for £14,000 at Charles Miller’s latest Maritime and Scientific sale in West Kensington.
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Monarch of the Glen withdrawn from Christie’s auction as museum and owner make deal
17 November 2016Edwin Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen has been withdrawn from auction at Christie’s following an agreement between the consignor and the National Galleries of Scotland to help the museum retain the iconic painting.
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National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to secure Lawrence portrait of Duke of Wellington
03 November 2016The National Portrait Gallery today launched an appeal to finish raising the £1.3m necessary to secure Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington for its collection.
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Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen reappears at Christie’s after 100 years
03 November 2016Sir Edwin Landseer’s famous painting of a Highlands stag, Monarch of the Glen, will be offered at Christie’s next month with an estimate in the region of £10m.
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Nelson portrait with Emma Hamilton connection at Charles Miller auction
01 November 2016An antique’s appearance in an exhibition in a gallery or museum can help boost auction value in several ways. One factor after the show is adding to the provenance: this item was so important it was selected for a landmark display on the artist or designer.
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Ex-Quaritch dealer’s collection comes to auction at Roseberys
01 November 2016A single-owner sale of pictures and books assembled by the late Howard Radclyffe, a former director of London dealers Quaritch, will be offered at Roseberys on November 19.
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Robert Salmon painting leaps to a house record in Cumbria
29 September 2016Robert Salmon’s 1814 oil painting ‘The Frigate William Fell off Greenock’ set a house record at Mitchells of Cockermouth earlier this month when it was knocked down at £79,000.
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‘Lost’ Victorian portrait ‘best ever seen’ on BBC's Antiques Roadshow
26 September 2016A previously unknown Victorian work of art has been deemed the best and most valuable picture ever seen on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
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Burne-Jones painting stolen from a cottage in West Sussex
14 July 2016A painting by Edward Burne-Jones was among the items taken in two burglaries at the same property in Linchmere, near Haslemere last month.
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