Dealers

Dealers come in all shapes and forms, from small sole-traders to powerhouse galleries. Both play an integral role in the art and antiques market.

They often specialise in a given fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but there are also plenty of general dealers operating across different categories.

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Join the fleamarket fellowship

13 March 2023

Square in front of Walthamstow’s distinctive town hall is venue for organisers’ latest venture

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Hercules study for a wall hanging

13 March 2023

The specialist Paris drawings dealer Galerie de Bayser is showing this work by Simon Vouet (1590-1649) at the Salon du Dessin

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Children's alphabet book stars at Edinburgh book fair

13 March 2023

An unrecorded and apparent first Scottish edition example of the 18th century children’s book Tom Thumb’s Play-book is set to feature at the Edinburgh Book Fair.

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London jewellery firm Symbolic & Chase expands

13 March 2023

Symbolic & Chase is expanding its Old Bond Street premises from two to three floors with an opening scheduled for late April

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Simple still-life and classical scene

13 March 2023

Plenty of Italian works can be found in the Salon du Dessin ranging from Old Master drawings to modern items

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LAPADA fair return in 2023 boosts membership

13 March 2023

The return of the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has generated new memberships for the association.

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Moretti showcases those who followed Donatello

13 March 2023

St James's exhibition looks beyond Donatello, currently featured at the V&A, to discover how Florentine artists influenced homes of the era

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The web shop window: an early 20th century desk fan

13 March 2023

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

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Horsup in shot for Tatler

13 March 2023

Jewellery and vintage accessories dealer Gillian Horsup is in demand – not just for her sparkling gems and handbags, but for her modelling credentials.

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Great and the good connected in a collar

13 March 2023

This Victorian 18ct gold, enamel and gemset collar tells a fascinating story of a well-known aristocratic family.

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Organisers promise a wow factor

13 March 2023

Thirty dealers will be spreading out on the ground floor and in the grounds of Enys House, Penryn, near Falmouth in west Cornwall at the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs on Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2.

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Dealers news in brief including a show focusing on an East Anglian artist in Aldeburgh

13 March 2023

A roundup of news and events from across the trade

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5 Questions with Kate Mitas

13 March 2023

Kate Mitas specialises in 19th and 20th century American social history, with an emphasis on women’s history. She is one of the exhibitors at The Ephemera Society of America fair in March (18-19) and the New York Antiquarian Book Fair (April 27-30).

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Drawings fairs March on in Paris

13 March 2023

The Salon du Dessin and its Contemporary art younger sibling are now back to normal in the spring slot

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Paris galleries unveil highlights for Drawing Now

13 March 2023

For its presentation at Drawing Now, the Galerie Lelong from Paris will include a special focus on the work of Christine Safa (b.1994).

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‘Business is good’

13 March 2023

Alex Robins of AFC Fairs is a busy woman. She kicks off her showground scene on Easter Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, with the first of the biannual antiques and collectors’ fairs which she has run at the Wadebridge Showground in north Cornwall for 15 years.

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Top stories this week including news of Johnny Depp’s surprise visit to a Lincolnshire antiques centre

12 March 2023

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Hemswell Antique Centres welcoming a special visitor who arrived by helicopter.

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TEFAF Maastricht early sales include £1.4m bronze

09 March 2023

The fair is embracing the chance to go "back to normal" for the first time since 2019

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TEFAF vetting practices criticised by former committee member

09 March 2023

A former member of the vetting committee at TEFAF Maastricht, which opens today, has criticised the fair for “vetting decisions being overruled or ignored”.

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Fresh name for London’s newest summer art fair

08 March 2023

A new fair planned by two of the original founders of 'Masterpiece' has a new name: 'The Treasure House Fair'.

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