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The British Museum has announced plans to digitally document its entire collection.

The first pieces of antique furniture ever to sell at Frieze Masters were snapped up as the 11th edition of the fair opened last week.

Sotheby’s and Christie’s have both announced major lots that will feature at the next series of Old Master auctions in London in December.

The original workshop drawing for a Fabergé jewel in the Royal Collection has been found in the Wartski archive.

An allegorical bird and flower oil painted by the artist-plantsman Cedric Morris (1889-1982) in the shadow of the Second World War comes to auction this month.

Elements from the Pearson collection of post-war silver - the largest assemblage of its kind in private hands - will be on display at Noonans in Mayfair.

A stoneware birdbath designed by one of Rodin’s students was among the highlight sales at the autumn edition of the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair.

Angelica Kauffman’s Penelope and Euriclea has been bought at auction by Stourhead, the National Trust’s Wiltshire stately home, and will go back on display at the property for the first time since the mid-19th century.

A painting by a Scottish Impressionist has been recovered with the help of Art Loss Register (ALR) and Tennants Auctioneers after being stolen in 1989.

The sale of the collection of dealer and ‘titan of design’ Robert Kime drew a flurry of interest at Dreweatts last week, raising more than £7.6m hammer across three days.

Queues snaked around the block for the opening of British Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Duke of York Square.

While the Dundee-born painter Catherine Read (1723-78) is considered the first Scottish women to work as a professional artist, a close second was Ann Forbes (1745-1834).

The Distinguished Flying Cross and bar awarded to the highest scoring Jewish ‘ace’ of the First World War is to be offered at Noonans’ auction in London on October 13.

Glasgow Women’s Library has bought a hunger strike medal at auction after more than 500 people donated to help secure the signi f icant piece of Suffragette history.

A study of a horse and rider billed as a late work by Raphael (1483-1520) is being offered at auction in Austria.