Dreweatts

Dawsons Auctioneers has appointed Jonathan Pratt as managing director.

Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.

Oil on canvas showing favoured subject of the artist takes top spot so far in UK sales outside London

The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.

Artist’s record broken by trademark highly detailed study of natural objects painted in tempera

Castings on Charles I era lantern clock suggests the work of William Bowyer

Two prominent single-owner collections put together into a single Town & Country sale at Dreweatts generated some decent if selective bidding when it came to the pictures on offer.

It’s wise to keep a lid on estimates for traditional pictures where condition and market freshness is lacking

The high-flyer in Dreweatts’ (26/25/20/15% buyer’s premium) sale of the contents of Collections from Cairness House and a Wimpole Street townhouse was the set of six Chippendale chairs made for Brocket Hall that sold for £95,000 (see News, ATG No 2629).

It is a good time to be selling works by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840).

A set of six George III giltwood side chairs made by Thomas Chippendale for Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire sold at Dreweatts on January 31.

Regional firms report that while big buyers remain active the middle level is challenging

This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.