Dealers

An autograph painting by German artist Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79) was one of the stand-out sales during London Art Week (LAW).

Focus on two shops launched in a former bank in Wiltshire and restaurant in Cumbria

Outside and around the Bermondsey flooring and salvage showrooms of The London Architectural Salvage and Supply Company (Lassco), the annual Maltby Street Christmas Market runs on Friday evenings until December 20 from 6-9.30pm.

Dealer Jackie Harris of Puckhaber Decorative Antiques was on one of her regular buying trips to the South of France when she spotted a familiar face.

Sellers and buyers hit the ground running to make the most of the early-morning bargains

Rumours of the death of shops are wide of the mark judging by the latest news of developments in the sector. Here is a selection of gallery moves and initiatives, starting with a new base for a business founded in 1884.

A new website founded by two dealers aims to offer a “user-friendly” hub for buying and selling art and antiques.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Polly Bielecka is director at sculpture gallery Pangolin London.

David William Stoddart, trading as Black Ink Prints, passed away suddenly on November 20 aged 62. Much loved and sadly missed.

As with so many other businesses, art and antiques dealerships go into overdrive for the intense selling period up to Christmas. Here is a selection of five items from exhibitions and the latest catalogues.

Kelly Ross runs The Art Stable specialising in Contemporary and 20th century British painting, prints and ceramics.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The British Art Fair (BAF) is to return to its previous dates in late September.

One of the rarest pieces in Suffolk House Antiques’ Christmas selling exhibition is a Georgian candle stand in fruitwood and elm. The back would have protected the flame so that the person using it would have uninterrupted light even in a draughty house. Examples bearing the original backs do not always show up intact.

Invented in the 19th century but outmoded by word processors then computers, typewriters are now having a resurgence in the collecting world.

Book dealer John Lawson joined EM Lawson & Co, the firm that his father had started at Sutton Coldfield in 1921, when he was demobbed from national service in the RAF in 1952.