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2019
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Modern British art dealer launches new website for paintings under £2000 to encourage new buyers
10 January 2019Modern British art specialist Liss Llewellyn has divided its business across two buying platforms to help customers search for and find pictures from its 4000 items of stock more easily.
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Painting of 19th century ship that encountered sea monsters and pirates sells in the Cotswolds after 40 years off the market
10 January 2019A huge painting of HMS Daedalus by Bristol artist Arthur Wilde Parsons (1854-1931) was a highlight at last week’s Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair where is sold for £12,500.
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And they're off! Who was selling what at this week's Kempton Park fair
09 January 2019It's only the second week of the new year and temperatures outside have plummeted. Try telling this to the trade – sellers and buyers – as well as privates who came to the year’s first Sunbury Antiques Market fair at Kempton Park to find a few diamonds in the rough.
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Private equity-backed company buys US auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions
09 January 2019US auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions have been brought together under one umbrella company in a private equity-backed deal.
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Antique dealer's son to auction extensive collection of oak furniture and delftware at Bonhams
09 January 2019A fine collection of antique oak furniture, treen and delftware owned by Pelham Olive, the son of dealer and co-founder of the Regional Furniture Society Gabriel Olive, is to be sold at Bonhams.
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Bookseller boost as number of independent shops grow in the UK
08 January 2019The decline in independent bookshops in the UK appears to have been halted with growth recorded for the second year in a row.
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Two-decade labour of love now over as book is published by Antiques Roadshow glass specialist
08 January 2019Glass dealer and Antiques Roadshow specialist Andy McConnell has launched a book to document the history of glass, from ancient to modern.
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Movers and shakers: the latest trade appointments including new faces at TW Gaze, Heritage Auctions and Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
07 January 2019Our latest look at moves across the world of art and antiques.
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Christie’s wins fight in France to charge resale right on buyers not sellers
07 January 2019Supreme Court in Paris rules that auction house can now charge buyers rather than sellers for artist levy.
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Former Thomas Watson director launches new auction house
07 January 2019Former Thomas Watson Auctioneers director David Elstob is to launch his own auction house with wife Beth Elstob.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week including Dirk Bogarde's pietra dura table and a Zulu War shield
07 January 2019With estimates from £50 to £25,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
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They said what?! From dreams of handbags to spellbinding paintings, the top quotes from the art and antiques trade
06 January 2019This week's quotes include comments on an Old Master dealer's decision to sell at auction, a Claude Monet Venice view and a never-before-seen collection of Zulu war artefacts.
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Appeal to antiques trade to help find stolen medals awarded to nurse who served in Africa
05 January 2019The owner of a group of medals stolen from a car in south London is calling on the trade to help her locate them.
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New York dealer Richard Feigen consigns series of Old Master paintings to Christie’s
04 January 2019Christie’s has announced that it will offer a group of works from veteran art dealer Richard L Feigen later this year, valued at around $10m.
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What lots caught bidders’ eyes in the last fortnight? Five auction highlights including a Liverpool delft soup bowl
04 January 2019ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes a Liverpool delft soup bowl with a battle scene showing the famous capture of Porto Bello by the British in 1739.
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New year, new resolutions: 12 pledges to make 2019 a good year to be in art and antiques
04 January 2019As the new year kicks off, we asked art market players for the one big thing they resolve to do over the next 12 months. Steering clear of pledging to keep fit, quit smoking and saving more money, our sample instead focused on the business of buying and selling art and antiques and improved ways of doing so.
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Sixteen new exhibitors and a guest appearance from Gilbert & George at BRAFA 2019
04 January 2019The 64th edition of Brussels’ BRAFA Art Fair will feature 133 dealers and galleries from 16 different countries.
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Zulu War relics from extensive collection on offer at Kent auction along with tribal art
03 January 2019Relics from the hard-fought defence of Rorke’s Drift in the Zulu War are among the lots for sale in a Kent auction as part of an extensive collection from the period.
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Sotheby’s to auction Claude Monet view of Venice with £20m-30m estimate
03 January 2019Paintings by the great Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) are not especially rare at auction. However, while depictions of waterlilies and scenes of Paris appear at most major sales series, the artist’s views of Venice emerge only occasionally.
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Five pieces of post-war British glass for sale at SAS next week
03 January 2019Well-known and rare glass designs feature in the 200-plus lots from a single-owner collection for sale at Special Auction Services on Tuesday, January 8.