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Watercolour painting
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Barrett Browning sale bonanza as family collection comes to auction
15 April 2024Varied group of items related to the poet appeared for sale in Somerset
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Charles Ginner takes to the London rooftops
23 October 2023The highest prices at auction for the Camden Town Group artist Charles Ginner (1878-1952) have all come for oil paintings but his precise, lucid style very much leant itself to the medium of watercolour.
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UK buyers sought for Giacometti bronze chandelier and 18th-century botanical drawings
18 July 2023A Giacometti chandelier and drawings which helped develop Kew Gardens have been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution will raise funding.
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Turner and Wilkie turn up at auction
01 May 2023Drawing four phone bidders plus online, a rediscovered early watercolour of Chepstow Castle by JMW Turner (1775-1851) led Cheffins’ latest fine art sale.
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An artist’s Christmas card and an advent calendar by Andy Warhol are among five Christmassy items this season
19 December 2022Christmas is coming and here are some art, antiques and collectables to bring on that festive feeling.
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Rowlandson collector
24 September 2022Prints and drawings by the English artist and caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) from an American collector are being sold on iGavel auctions in an online sale presented by Lark Mason Associates that runs until September 28.
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Clutterbuck’s temple benefits from Indian summer
19 September 2022Most watercolours by Violet Esther Drury Clutterbuck (1869-1960) tend to fetch a few hundred pounds or less at auction.
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Pitch perfect for Ruskin’s tower
19 September 2022Watercolour of Oxford by the Victorian arbiter of taste benefits from attractive estimate.
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Pick of the week: First look at Sydney Harbour Bridge
04 April 2022Cyril Arthur Farey (1888-1954) was one of the most renowned British architectural draughtsmen of the 20th century.
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Piste off? Get an art fix instead
15 February 2021With ski season on ice for so many, exhibitions offering snowy scenes could fill in
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Steamy Russell Flint works set pulses racing
25 January 2021A collection of watercolours by Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969) given their own stand-alone catalogue set pulses racing at Lyon & Turnbull.
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Squirrell catches the eye in Essex and Cambridge auctions
02 November 2020Leonard Squirrell (1893-1979) is most associated with East Anglia, producing a significant body of rural scenes of Suffolk and Norfolk as well as cityscapes of Norwich and Ipswich.
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Bidders back a local artist in Cumbria
18 May 2020Seven lots by celebrated local artist Percy Kelly (1918-93) put in a decent performance at the most recent Antiques & Fine Art sale held by Cumbrian saleroom Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium).
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Sexy and sultry Flint tempts buyer
09 March 2020Textbook watercolour by the British artist takes one of his higher prices in recent years.
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Gwyneth Johnstone's frenetic scene of London home hits auction high in Cambridge sale
02 March 2020Auction prices are on the rise for the late Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone (1914-2010), daughter of the artist Augustus John and niece of the Welsh painter Gwen John.
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Varley the watercolour wonder
17 February 2020Group of paintings by one of the less well-known masters of the medium comes to light
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Dead pheasant study attributed to Turner draws interest at Perth auction house
27 January 2020A watercolour study of a dead pheasant attributed to JMW Turner (1775-1851) was taken to £14,000 at a Scottish auction house.
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ATG letter: Our Swiss scene ‘painted by a Suffragette’
13 January 2020MADAM – we are appealing for information about the creator of a watercolour picture who we believe may have been a famous Suffragette.
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Album displays Bristol’s brightest minds
09 December 2019Watercolour collection sold at auction represents a ‘who’s who’ of the city in the 1830s
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Ministers block export of 18th century watercolour by “genius” landscape artist
29 June 2019An 18th century watercolour by the artist who John Constable described as a genius has been barred from export in the hope a UK buyer can be found.
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