Auctioneers

Pictures by two leading women of the Modern British art movement sold strongly at a Lyon & Turnbull (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) auction in London.

Bury St Edmunds might not be the most obvious place to find pieces of Filipino modernism.

A number of strong performers stood out in a variety of individual pieces offered in Bamfords’ (24.75% buyer’s premium) large four-day auction

Irish art sales rated as ‘very good’ despite some supply challenges as private collectors wait to consign

Most people will be familiar with Charlie Ross due to his garrulous presence on TV screens for many years, across several BBC antiques programmes.

Near-complete version of a work on a grandiose scale that caused its author’s ruin comes to Chicago saleroom

Ada Augusta Lovelace (1815-52), the only daughter of Lord Byron, is today justly celebrated as a mathematician and computer pioneer.

I have frequently locked horns with auction houses over their increasing postage costs.

Prior to the Poisons and Pharmacy Act of 1908, there was no legal requirement that a bottle containing poison should carry a warning.

Most Tudor and Stuart embroidered bindings that have survived from the 16th and 17th century cover Bibles, prayerbooks, and other devotional texts.

The McClure Arctic Expedition of 1850 was one of the Franklin rescue missions but ended up with the ironic fate of getting trapped themselves.

The final tranche of items from the Tony Chapman collection of pewter offered at Bishop & Miller of Stowmarket on June 19 included this capacious Victorian lidded jug once owned by Charles Dickens (1812-70).

The list of Polar exploration ships once lost but now rediscovered grew in number recently when it was announced the Quest had been located.

The last Jean-Jacques Rousseau herbarium in private hands came for sale at Ader in Paris on June 17.