Front Page and News

Nearly 50 people are hoping to reclaim pictures they had consigned to failed art gallery Trinity House Paintings.

A large and striking 1920s portrait of a young woman drew strong competition at Dreweatts’ (26% buyer’s premium) sale of Anouska Hempel’s collection.

The Victoria and Albert Museum has bought the only known version of a vase produced by the Chelsea porcelain factory during its ‘Gold Anchor’ period.

Sailing way above expectations at Sarasota Estate Auctions in Florida was a diminutive English watercolour depicting the deck of a Royal Navy ship.

A single-owner collection from Lord Iveagh will be offered by Sworders at the Guinness family’s stately home, Elveden Hall in Suffolk.

The British Museum is investigating a theft of jewellery and has dismissed a member of staff following the discovery that items from its “collection were found to be missing, stolen or damaged”.

Scenes of nudity in American Civil War photography are typically accidental or produced in field hospitals for medical study.

Events organiser IACF (International Antiques & Collectors Fairs) is to launch a fair in the Midlands.

A usually quiet August was dramatically awakened by a series of sleepers that emerged at three UK regional auction houses.

Market and fair organisers have told ATG they are bolstering security following a spate of recent thefts targeting the jewellery trade.

Thoughts that the sweet homely watercolours of Helen Allingham (1848-1926) have fallen from favour commercially may be premature, at least judging by the performance of a couple of works sold at a recent regional sale.

Luxury fashion discovered in a charity shop is heading to upmarket London retailer Fortnum & Mason.

Antwerp dealership Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has made two sales to international institutions.

A drawing of Jean François Millet’s (1814-75) most famous image generated unexpected levels of bidding in Alameda, California.

A silver and gold presentation belt given to a civilian volunteer nurse who looked after the sick and wounded during the Siege of Ladysmith during the second Boer War has soared over estimate in a London auction.