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“I will always be a painter of beaches,” declared Eugène Boudin (1824-98) in 1864.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

In 1906, three years after he had founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser, the multi-talented Austrian Josef Hoffmann designed a silver casket.

Also at Shepton Mallet in January, IACF’s two-day Antiques, Vintage & Collectors Fair takes place on Friday and Saturday 17-18.

MADAM – Can I correct the lazy and simply wrong English title translation for the German TV show, Bares für Rares (ATG No 2421) as ‘Cash for Trash’.

Jeremy Lamond, former director of Halls, will be joining auction house Woolley & Wallis at the end of March 2020 as head of the valuations department and associate director.

Two key early maps of colonial North America were offered for sale at Ramsay Cornish in Edinburgh on December 7.

Two leading BADA members have reported strong sales to close out the year.

Our regular precious metals pricing update.

The big issues in January included early discussions on Brexit red tape, the end of a 10-year tussle over Artist’s Resale Right in France and the ABA turning to Biblio for fair sponsorship after protests about Amazon-owned AbeBooks.

Preview held in imposing stately home helps to boost interest ahead of first sale section.

In preparation for the 25th anniversary of the Staffordshire Figure Association (SFA) in 2020, its 60 members worldwide are, for the first time, receiving a wall calendar.

Rising buyer's premiums, change at The Fine Art Society and Masterpiece in Hong Kong being affected by the wave of protests were among the topics making headlines in February.

The sale at flood-hit Bamfords (21% buyer’s premium) on October 30 included chattels from the estate of Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish (1926-2018), daughter of the 10th Duke of Devonshire of nearby Chatsworth House.

Exhibition shows how painter’s shift from realism to Pre-Raphaelite fantasies paid off.

MADAM – Regarding your recent letters about ‘green’ ways to pack art and antiques, here at Adrian Harrington Rare Books we have found a supplier of biodegradable bubble-style wrapping and foam pellets that are a ‘green’ solution for packaging books and sending them around the world.

In March UK’s art market reclaimed its second position in the global league table, while new discoveries of Constable sketches and a number of auction houses opening new businesses or locations in London were among the developments.

Although catalogued as Sèvres, a porcelain cup and saucer sold by Keys (20% buyer’s premium) of Aylsham for an unexpected £5500 (estimate £100-200) on November 27 was by the factory’s precursor at Vincennes. The saucer had the date letter A for c.1754 and the cup B for c.1755.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.

Exhibitors were encouraged by the second Art and Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) under ambitious new owner MaD Events.