Obituaries

Last year art dealer Manya Igel described herself as “a bl**dy miracle, considering the life I lead”. Life did indeed throw much sadness and drama her way, but her fighting spirit always seemed to overcome the most traumatic events.

We regret to announce the death of Aurea Carter aged 79 on September 18 after a brave fight against pancreatic cancer.

We regret to announce the passing of Russell Timms, who has died peacefully aged 69.

David Wheatley of Wheatley Antiques, who specialised in Chinese and Japanese porcelain and works of art, has passed away, aged 69, after a short battle with cancer.

Leonard started his antiques career in 1968, working in a small shop in Westbourne Grove, London, for Patricia Harvey.

The well-known Manchester art dealer, Michael Fulda, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 3.

David Newell-Smith, who together with wife Sonya ran the Tadema Gallery in Camden Passage, died on June 11.

Samuel Miller Freeman II – known to all as Beau – was a fixture in the Philadelphia auction scene for just shy of six decades.

My father, Jim Collingridge, FGA, DGA, former deputy chairman of Christie’s South Kensington, died on June 3 at the age of 86.

We are sad to announce that Roy Davids, formerly head of Sotheby’s book department, died aged 74 on April 30 after a long illness.

Frank Herrmann, writer, publisher and auctioneer, died at his home in Essex on April 30, a month short of his 90th birthday, following a long battle with illness.

Well-known Cheltenham antiques dealer Yvonne Reynolds sadly passed away on the April 11, aged 85 after a long illness.

The antiquarian book trade has lost two well-known faces with the deaths of Frank Herrmann and Roy Davids.

A notice to our friends in the trade: I am sorry to have to inform you that Steven Hyder recently passed away, Angela Hyder writes

Rudolf Neumeister, one of Germany’s longest serving auctioneers, passed away on February 23 at the age of 91.

We regret to announce the death on March 11 of Cotswolds dealer Stephen Jarrett of Witney Antiques.