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Oil painting
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Oils by Queen Victoria sell in London auction
01 May 2023Two oil paintings by Queen Victoria believed to date to the second half of the 19th century were found among family heirlooms in a Surrey cottage.
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London as seen before the big blaze
01 May 2023View of the city ahead of the Great Fire was attributed to a Dutch artist who produced several panoramas
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Museum secures Ingres portrait from dealer’s sale
29 April 2023The two-day sale of works from the French dealership Talabardon & Gautier was held at Drouot by Ader (28% buyer’s premium)
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Italian attractions in Philadelphia
24 April 2023This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction
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View of the Acropolis is high point at Roseberys
24 April 2023This oil depicting the Acropolis in Athens by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905) was taken to £13,000 at Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
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Tesson’s delicacies in line with bidders’ taste
24 April 2023French artist Louis Tesson (1820-70) is best known for his genre paintings in the Middle East and north Africa.
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European Art: Freshness and pitch combine to create market bright spots
24 April 2023While demand for 19th century European art remains selective, recent sales have enjoyed good bidding on the ‘right’ material with appealing estimates
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French artist’s nude makes four times estimate in Geneva
24 April 2023The stand-out lot offered at a recent sale at Piguet (23% buyer’s premium) of Geneva was a female nude by Jean Souverbie (1891-1981).
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Courbet nude emerges for garden party
24 April 2023This work is billed as the largest ever nude by Gustave Courbet (1819-77) to be offered at auction
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Elegant sitter ‘from the Fairfaxes’ catches the attention
27 March 2023A flurry of bids emerged at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford for a particularly fine 17th century portrait of a young woman.
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Artist rated as the first exponent of modern Turkish painting
27 March 2023The Franco-Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey bridged the gap between Orient and Occident and is regarded as the first exponent of modern Turkish painting
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Trade greets market fresh Wodehouse Old Master wonders
27 March 2023Middle market Old Masters, longstanding family ownership, market freshness... what’s not to like?
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Stumped about match location in a sporting scene
13 March 2023Cricket scene could not be clearly identified but approximate date provided strong historical appeal
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Room bidders back in the Edinburgh mix
06 March 2023Thomson Roddick auction shows sign that room attendances for sales are on the rise.
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Lost portrait of Sitting Bull rediscovered at Florida auction house
13 February 2023Once thought lost, an oil painting of the Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull (1831-90) has emerged at a Florida auction house.
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Mantel clock is pick of a d’Estaing presidential selection
06 February 2023Clock formed as memorial to Napoleonic general stars among contents of d’Estaing family home
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Later Tate director also made a good impression as an artist early on
06 February 2023If this painting of a farmhouse in Brittany seems reminiscent of a piece of French Impressionism, that’s probably no coincidence.
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Acrimonious royal family split detailed in letters now up at auction
18 January 2023Not THAT split, but the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII which also caused recriminations, as letters at Catherine Southon's sale show - plus other auctions offer many unpublished photos of Princess Di and paintings said to be by Queen Victoria.
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Noble resident of County Wicklow for around 150 years
09 January 2023A portrait of a noblewoman catalogued as by a follower of Frans Pourbus the Younger, dated 1615, emerged as one of the highlights at Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge.
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Officer’s first-rank taste in artworks
09 January 2023Another slice of the collection which brought a Christopher Wood record comes up in Gloucestershire saleroom
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