Auctioneers

Art dealers across the UK are unveiling portrait exhibitions to mark the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) this month.

A sale of Old Masters, British & European Art at Chorley’s in Gloucestershire on June 27 includes this 17th century English School painting depicting the burning of London Bridge.

Stroud Auctions has completed its rebrand and relocation and is now called Harper Field Auctioneers & Valuers.

A previously unrecorded second version of Lavinia Fontana’s Mannerist portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus has sold in France for a record €1.25m (£1.1m).

A print commemorating an 18th century example of British and American military cooperation was given as a present 200 years later to mark another joint success.

Mirabaud-Mercier’s sale at Drouot on June 16 will feature this Venetian view by Albert Marquet (1875- 1947).

A musical ‘captain’s desk’ davenport sold for £9500 at Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) Scientific and Musical Instruments sale in Leyburn on May 17.

The first recorded order for Arita porcelain by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) is dated 1653.

A Cubist still-life by Albert Gleizes (1881-1953) which has remained in the same family since it was purchased from the artist in 1948 is for sale at Ivoire Toulouse/Primardeco.

Sotheby’s is to offer the private collection of Hélène Leloup (b.1927), one of the major pioneering dealers in African and Oceanic Art.

A buyer got their teeth into an antique doll at auction despite the foot being chewed off by the family' pet dog.

Hermann Historica’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) huge series of sales in Munich included what it billed as ‘a key document from German history’.

Dealers are now facing more competition from collectors as works estimated in the hundreds of pounds range are taken to four-figure prices

This 17th century floral still-life features in the sale of Old Master paintings and drawings to be held by Tajan on June 21.

Although catalogued simply as an 18th century English School miniature, this portrait of an Indian prince is discretely signed and dated JS 1793.

'Portrait de Dolly' by Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) comes to auction this month.

Trio of collections is offered in Perth auction with estimates pitched to entice bidders

De Baecque & Associés will be selling this monumental astronomical clock standing 9ft 11in (3m) high on June 30.