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Trio of family paintings depicting Jervis’ finest hour bring £90,000 result for marine specialist Charles Miller

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Artists throughout history have been inspired by the moon and its light. Mysterious, illusive, and ethereal, this celestial body has been utilised to convey all manner of themes from romance and religion to fantasy and intrigue.

Two long-standing auction department heads launch second careers as dealers this month.

The first of two Bonhams sales dispersing the remaining stock of the long-established Chinese art dealership of Roger Keverne was a marathon affair.

Exhibition at firm’s new premises focuses on headdress and headwear

A couple of Winston Churchill letters were among the more successful lots in a second selection from a History in Manuscript collection* formed over the last 20 years and offered at Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium).

This late 17th century portrait depicts Lady Frances Brudenell, Countess of Newburgh (c.1677-1736), an early victim of salacious journalism.

In the bicentenary year of his death, relics connected to Napoleon will inevitably catch the eye.

Drawings can sell for six figures but a more affordable way to own work by the artist exists

The great British tradition of celebrating last stands and heroic defeats includes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

London gallery devotes catalogue to items from the era to mark bicentenary of his death

After a long and illustrious naval career, it is a pity that Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell is best known for the circumstances of his death.

These pressed Darjeeling ferns feature in an album compiled and mounted by Phoebe Jaffrey in 1882.

A brief history of maps designed to communicate ideas over geographical accuracy