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Westminster Abbey is to unveil a series of watercolours after the Dean and Chapter of Westminster purchased a group of 35 pictures from artist Alexander Creswell.

Jeffrey Archer’s collection of political cartoons raised a total of £571,318 (including premium) at Sotheby’s as 240 original artworks went under the hammer this week.

Art and antiques fair BADA 2018 opened to the public yesterday and unveiled its exhibitor awards for best object, lighting, display and the coveted best stand.

The organisers of the inaugural Antique Arms Fair at Olympia London last September hope to build on the positive feedback from that event with the second one coming up in April.

Fine Art dealer Atelier offers a painting of the Great Eastern Railway Company’s Liverpool Street Hotel & Abercorn Rooms in London as a highlight of its stand at BADA 2018.

By coincidence, later this month Chiswick Auctions will be offering two works that were exhibited at the 1873 Vienna international exhibition.

Phillips posted the highest total for an auction in the company’s history when its 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening sale this week generated £97.8m including premium.

Museum Street fine art gallery Abbott and Holder is holding a 10 day spring sale.

Leading fashion brands Victoria Beckham and Max Mara have partnered with Mayfair Art Weekend (MAW).

While the record-breaking Victoria Cross medal sold in November last year may have eluded him, Lord Ashcroft is far from inactive when it comes to buying more of these honours for his medals gallery at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Peter Doig (b.1959) prices have been on a roll with three works sold for over £15m at auction in the last 10 months. However, the latest major painting to emerge failed to attract any notable bidding in the saleroom at Sotheby’s and was knocked down under estimate.