Fine Art

Fine art is a staple of the dealing and auctioneering industry, featuring works ranging from Medieval art to traditional Old Masters, and right through to cutting-edge Contemporary art.

While oil paintings represent a large part of the sector, other mediums adopted by artists across the ages include drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs.

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Join the thrill of the Hunt

16 September 2024

Guy Peppiatt is holding an exhibition of works by the ‘master of reality’ William Henry Hunt (1790-1864).

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Thomas Daniell Calcutta plates in five-figure demand

16 September 2024

Five plates from the series Views of Calcutta underlined the demand for work by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) when they hammered at £24,000 in Edinburgh on September 4-5.

Panter & Hall in Pall Mall

St James's dealer moves to high profile venue

13 September 2024

The works of Alexander Milligan Galt help to launch Panter & Hall's new West End space

portrait of a man

‘Dutch school’ portrait catches the eye making over 40 times estimate in Ruislip

13 September 2024

With Old Master sleeper spotters trawling through online catalogues looking for works with hidden potential, it’s not unusual for the odd lot to draw an unexpected bidding at sales all over the country.

James Richards of dealership Charles Ede

Dealership Charles Ede appoints James Richards to boost fine art sales

11 September 2024

London firm Charles Ede is expanding its repertoire and has brought in James Richards to launch its new approach which includes a greater focus on fine art at this year's 'Frieze Masters'.

Bastille sketch

Contemporaneous sketch of the demolished Bastille makes $1.6m at Freeman’s Hindman

10 September 2024

A sketch which was given by the Marquis de Lafayette to the first American president George Washington sold for $1.6m (£1.22m) at an auction in Philadelphia earlier today.

The Flying Scotsman by Terence Cuneo

Major collection of Terence Cuneo and Ruskin Spear pictures consigned to Sworders

10 September 2024

What promises to be a market-defining sale for two well-known Modern British artists will be held in Essex this autumn.

2660NE Frederic Leighton, Bay Of Cadiz Moonlight, C. 1866

Leighton auction purchase lights up exhibition at museum dedicated to the artist

10 September 2024

Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.

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Expressionist pioneer Bauhaus artist later became a Nazi

09 September 2024

Lithograph comes from 1920s series made long before Schreyer pledged allegiance to Hitler

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Sandoz bronze goose reduced to snail’s pace

09 September 2024

Clars (26% buyer’s premium) brought a bronze sculpture by famed 20th century animalier Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971) to market in Oakland, California, as part of the Summer Fine Art Sale.

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Brooke boost: new auction benchmarks

09 September 2024

Prices are on the rise for Yorkshire-born painter Anne Brooke (1916-2002).

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18th century view of London by Irish female artist flies to over 30 times estimate

09 September 2024

The only known painting of London by an 18th century Irish female artist came for sale in Salisbury earlier this month.

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Adamson ice fisherman catches the attention at auction

09 September 2024

Top lot at The Magnusson Group (25/15/12% buyer’s premium) at Morristown, New Jersey on July 24, was a 1898 bronze by the Estonian sculptor Amandus Heinrich Adamson (1855-1929).

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Art fair puts Barns-Graham in freeze focus for a showcase

09 September 2024

Modern British trailblazer’s works inspired by a Swiss glacier form centrepiece of event exhibition

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Gude tidings from East Anglia as Norwegian landscape work delights

09 September 2024

Tyrolean view by the renowned 19th century Norwegian landscape painter emerges in Essex saleroom

A print by David Hockney

Work by a teenage Hockney comes to auction

07 September 2024

David Hockney's art school era features in an array of prints coming to auction at Christie's that offers masters of Impressionism and Pop Art principals.

John Constable hampstead

Rediscovered John Constable painting of Hampstead sells for £410,000

04 September 2024

A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable provoked fierce bidding at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury

Watercolour by William Payne

Works from collection of watercolours expert Iolo Williams offered at Olympia Auctions

03 September 2024

It isn’t often these days that a large and connoisseurial collection of British watercolours comes to the market.

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Seven-figure bet on ‘Rembrandt’ as portrait becomes the Maine attraction

02 September 2024

The second session of the three-day sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on August 23-25 was dominated by the seven-figure performance of a portrait in the manner of Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-69).

Whistler portrait

Whistler’s first portrait commission comes to Bonhams

02 September 2024

Bonhams is offering James McNeill Whistler’s (1834-1903) first portrait commission, a painting of Lucas Alexander Ionides, at its 19th Century Art auction next month.

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