Museums and Institutions
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10 things in northern England for antiques enthusiasts including a collectors weekend in Cumbria
22 February 2019The art and antiques market gets busy in March with events such as TEFAF Maastricht, the BADA 2019 fair and London’s contemporary art evening auctions, but for art and antiques fans not travelling to London or the Low Countries, there is plenty going on in northern England in the same month.
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Hungarian government helps Budapest museum purchase £5m Anthony van Dyck portrait of English princess at Christie’s auction
21 February 2019The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest has announced that it bought the Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) portrait of Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I, that sold for £5m at Christie’s in December.
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Salvator Mundi: Louvre museum asks owner to loan world’s most expensive painting for Paris exhibition
20 February 2019The Louvre museum in Paris has requested the loan of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ for its major exhibition dedicated to the artist opening in October.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi revealed as buyer of £8.2m Rembrandt portrait at Sotheby’s
18 February 2019The Louvre Abu Dhabi has been revealed as the buyer of the small Rembrandt oil painting that led Sotheby’s Old Master evening sale in London at the end of last year after it went on view at the museum in the United Arab Emirates.
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William Powell Frith’s painting of Oscar Wilde at the Royal Academy goes on offer for the first time in over a century at St James’s gallery
12 February 2019'The Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881', a scene of influential Victorians at an exhibition painted by William Powell Frith (1819-1909), is on offer from St James’s dealer Martin Beisly for a price in the region of £10m.
![Professor David Starkey at Hever Castle unveiling a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots discovered by dealer Philip Mould](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/39121/david-starkey-unveiling-in-the-inner-hall-3.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131943132030000000&updated=02%2f10%2f2019+23%3a00%3a03)
Prof David Starkey: ‘Flair more important than great art scholarship to be a highly successful art dealer’
12 February 2019Prof David Starkey has said the most successful art dealers, such as his friend Philip Mould, do not necessarily have the greatest knowledge of art history but rather possess 'a flair for discoveries'.
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Exhibition to celebrate the role of the dealer opens at The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle
04 February 2019The antiques trade descended on The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle for the opening of an exhibition celebrating dealers’ shops, tastes, practices and their role in the creation of museum collections.
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Government strengthens law to protect treasure finds
01 February 2019The government is proposing to strengthen the Treasure Act to include important finds that do not fit the current legal definition.
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Mod Brit art from Hertfordshire County Council’s collection to be auctioned at Cheffins
30 January 2019Pictures by Mod Brit artists including Barbara Hepworth and Julian Trevelyan will go under the hammer at Cambridge auction house Cheffins following a council’s decision to offload artworks from storage.
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The Bowes Museum and dealer Lennox Cato open ‘Sold! The Great British Antiques Story’ exhibition
29 January 2019The antiques trade descended on The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle for the opening of an exhibition celebrating dealers’ shops, tastes, practices and their role in the creation of museum collections.
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Oxford’s Bodleian Library buys 500-year-old book-box from Paris dealer
24 January 2019The University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries has acquired a rare 15th-century French Gothic coffer – one of the largest-surviving examples of a late medieval box used for transporting precious books.
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Charles Dickens 'lost portrait' purchase for the nation fundraising hits £60,000
21 January 2019A public fund-raising effort to purchase the ‘lost’ portrait of Charles Dickens for the nation from dealership Philip Mould & Company has reached £60,000, a third of the asking price.
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Getty Museum buys classic Danish interior scene by Vilhelm Hammershøi
19 December 2018The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) barely months after it fetched a major sum at a Christie’s auction.
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Anglo-Saxon pendant found in Norfolk field voted Britain’s favourite work of art
18 December 2018A rare Anglo-Saxon pendant found in Norfolk by a metal detectorist has been voted Britain’s favourite work of art bought by a museum.
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Bowes Museum celebrates 200 years of the antiques trade
17 December 2018The antiques trade is to be celebrated in the New Year at a museum exhibition in County Durham.
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They said what!? Philip Mould on the ivory ban and other quotes from the arts and antiques market this week
16 December 2018This week members of the market reacted to the coming ivory ban, the sale of a Star Wars sketchbook and the rise in finding treasure.
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Metal-detecting trend boosts ‘treasure’ discoveries as numbers hit a record for second year running
13 December 2018Bronze Age golden jewellery and a Roman goddess kept in a margarine tub are among the discoveries dug up across the UK.
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Rare Summer Palace bronze found in British seaside bungalow returns to China
11 December 2018An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when the Summer Palace was sacked by British troops in 1860, has been returned to China.
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Museum's tribute to Manxman Archibald Knox
10 December 2018A c.1900 gold and enamel Archibald Knox (1864-1933) necklace is among the items lent by Anthony Bernbaum of The Peartree Collection for an exhibition at the Manx Museum.
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Art dealer and Fake or Fortune? presenter Philip Mould rediscovers Charles Dickens miniature
22 November 2018Dealer and Fake or Fortune? presenter Philip Mould has rediscovered a portrait miniature of Charles Dickens which will now go on public display.
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