Dealers

Antiques street markets have a vibe all their own. Jennifer Titmuss of Corky Events runs her monthly antiques and vintage markets in St Albans and Chiswick and both are doing well, with the St Albans event now in its fifth year and going strong.

Antiques dealer and taxidermy specialist Emma Hawkins is selling a collection from her townhouses in Edinburgh and London at Sotheby’s this month.

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

John Robertson deals in paintings and is among the exhibitors at the Mayfair Antiques and Fine Art Fair in January.

A large red earthenware jar from Siwa era (14th-11th century BC), bronze age China, is offered at Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair for £3800 by W Shanshan, one of a clutch of new exhibitors appearing at the London event.

A jeweller’s shop in Lincoln which first opened in 1959 has closed its doors after 63 years in business.

Art & Antiques for Everyone, the fair held three times a year at Birmingham’s NEC, has been scrapped for 2023, raising concerns that it will never return.

Two large-scale murals by leading Modern British artists have been purchased by The Rothschild Foundation from dealer Liss Llewellyn.

Anna Zinkeisen (1901-76), who painted 'The Boxing Match' depicting a bout from 1928, enjoyed publicity from the painting at the time.

In its stable of women artists Modern British art specialist Osborne Samuel features Sybil Andrews (1898-1992).

Dealer Karen Taylor is among those noting that “collectors seem to be following the trend set by museums and buying more work by women”.

Works by Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) have been rising in popularity.

The rare book trade was kept busy on the evening of December 9 with two parties taking place.

Suggestions on centres to visit, from Cardiff and Pembrokeshire up to Denbighshire

Event will change next year to be held less frequently but with greater impact

Sadly, but not unexpectedly at the age of 90, Frank Dux passed away on November 18, 2022.

Collectors are responding positively as dealers put overlooked female artists in the spotlight

Compact Paris exhibition includes 19 works with a ‘super provenance’ to the artist’s wife

This wartime portrait of the writer Amelia Defries shows her in the role of an ARP warden in Kensington.