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An oil by British artist Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) is a highlight of Bonhams’ 19th century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale in London on March 1.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

ATG's weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships...

Pom Harrington is the owner of Peter Harrington, specialising in rare books from the 15th to 20th centuries.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days.

Among the greatest motor industry achievements to come out of pre-war Britain was a series of luxury sports tourers made by Alvis in the late 1930s. Alvis cars of this period were not only elegant but featured ground-breaking technical innovations.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period January 27, 2016-February 1, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

New York dealer SJ Shrubsole, which deals in early English and American silver and jewellery, has exhibited at the Winter Antiques Show every year since it was founded. The firm’s Tim Martin explains why this is an unmissable event.

On an unrelated but more important subject, I am delighted to see the current debate on ivory getting so much coverage in the Gazette, but concerned about the minimal discussion recently about the possible effects of Brexit on the antiques trade.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

AT 63 years old (or young), the Winter Antiques Show fully lives up to its popular prefix as ‘venerable’. The fair, whose long-term beneficiary has been the East Side House Settlement in the Bronx, has been pulling the visitors into Manhattan in the first frosty weeks of the New Year for decades.

Robert Young is one of the leading UK dealers in folk art but each year, rather like taking coals to Newcastle, he exports this speciality across the Atlantic to the Winter Antiques Show where he has been an exhibitor since 2001. ATG asked why he has made a beeline for this fair over the last 17 years.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.