Dealers

With the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26) on the horizon, rare books specialist Peter Harrington is using Frieze Masters to launch an ambitious new collection of books and original manuscripts charting the history of climate change and environmentalism.

Waddington Custot is one of the latest galleries to celebrate the work of pioneering 20th century women.

Dealers will be heading to Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire this month with three days of buying beckoning from the two ‘biggies’.

Taken at the last Reclaimed Home Fair in Chipping Norton’s town hall in October 2019, this image below shows some of the delights that are likely to await buyers to this Cotswolds fair, co-organised by dealers Dorothy Stiven and Heather Lawson.

The stage was set for the 12th edition of Highlights in Munich at the beginning of July, but at short notice the local authorities prevented the event from going ahead, due to concerns about Covid.

After settling in to its new showroom in the West End, Koopman Rare Art has expanded its jewellery department.

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

After dealing ‘under the radar’, showground fair regular opens shop

The London Antique Arms Fair, founded in 1967, will be running its 103rd fair at a new venue, the RAF Museum in Hendon on Sunday, October 3.

In the wake of ATG's 50th anniversary issue last week, Alexander 'Sandy' Rich of Tregeagle Fine Art, who not so long ago left behind the thrilling world of art insurance to become a dealer, posted on Instagram about his own anniversary:

This recently discovered 18th century portrait was painted by John Vanderbank (1694-1739) and depicts Holles St John of Lydiard Park.

Well known in the antiques trade and art world, Philip Astley-Jones died after a short illness in mid-August.

Nearly 80 years after Walter Sickert’s (1860-1942) death and ahead of a major retrospective planned at Tate Britain in 2022, London gallery Piano Nobile is bringing together over 40 of the artist’s figure paintings for an autumn show.

This photo, below, was taken on September 4 at the annual inter-auction house sailing regatta at Seaview, Isle of Wight. The teams represented were Sotheby’s, Bonhams, Phillips, Roseberys and a dealers’ team represented by the likes of Colnaghi and Agnews.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Winter Arts & Antiques Fair at Olympia in west London is returning.

After enforced absence Northern Antiques Fair returns to the calendar at new venue

This dramatic scene depicts the burning of a warehouse in Wapping Wharf during the Bristol Riots of 1831.

Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar is a new exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair, which runs from September 30-October 3.