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David Messum Fine Art hosts Arthur Knighton-Hammond exhibition

06 March 2023

A watercolour of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur by Arthur Knighton-Hammond (1875-1970) is included in Messum’s exhibition on the artist.

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London dealer John Mitchell hosts Alpine views exhibition

06 March 2023

This painting of Mont Blanc as seen from the Lago Chérouit, Val d’Aosta, Italy, is among the works featured in this year’s Peaks and Glaciers exhibition at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

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School songbook signed by Winston Churchill for Jock is on tune

06 March 2023

Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937 was a printed collection of Harrow School Songs, but it was a rather special copy that sold for £7500.

Giacometti chandelier

Giacometti chandelier bought in Marylebone antiques shop for £250 sells for £2.4m

01 March 2023

A chandelier made in the 1940s for the offices of cultural magazine Horizon, and later purchased by artist John Craxton, sold for a hammer price of £2.4m at Christie’s.

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Camden Passage antiques dealers suffer amid new Islington traffic restrictions

28 February 2023

Traders at London’s historic Camden Passage antiques market have been blighted by roadworks for a new traffic system.

Pietre dure panel

Florentine panel fit for an emperor takes six-figure sum at Roseberys’ auction

27 February 2023

Research reveals £265,000 auction purchase is a celebrated work from Grand Ducal workshops

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Coming to TEFAF: Shapero Rare Books

27 February 2023

Rare books specialist Shapero Rare Books run by Bernard Shapero is a regular exhibitor at TEFAF.

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It must be love at Grays Antiques Market and Alfies

27 February 2023

How love has been represented in jewellery through the ages was the topic of discussion at Grays Antiques in London.

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Portobello Road antiques market gains award

27 February 2023

The Portobello & Golborne Market has won a national prize.

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Auction marks end of an era for textiles dealer Peta Smyth

27 February 2023

Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976 and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico, west London, is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles, attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors.

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Plea to help recover paintings stolen in Belgravia

21 February 2023

The Met police and Sloane Street Auctions are appealing for help to recover three pictures taken from a viewing in Belgravia.

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The Open Art Fair plans new dates and venue after postponing 2023 edition

20 February 2023

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) is investigating new dates and venues after it was forced to scrap its edition for this year.

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When Short Brothers started to hit the heights

20 February 2023

This instrument dates from the founding days of one of the world’s most significant aerospace manufacturers: Short Brothers

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Father and son Strutt their stuff at Bonhams

20 February 2023

Artists who both painted Rome city and surrounding views stand out in a country house sale

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Gallery takes transatlantic paths to abstraction

20 February 2023

The colourful and dynamic 1988 canvas 'Hydaspes' by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) or the geometric order and symmetry of Alfred Jensen’s (1903-81) work from 1966, 'Doric Order' – which do you prefer?

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A world coming into focus thanks to Negretti & Zambra

20 February 2023

Early stereoscopic images featured in the collection of a dealer curious about how technology transformed life in Victorian times

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Marine clock of Titanic type on offer

20 February 2023

London auctioneer Charles Miller holds his next Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art auction on April 25

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Now we’re down to Dulwich

20 February 2023

The workload of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, founders of the MidCentury Modern Shows, is now so taken up with the property staging side of their business and other projects that they now focus solely on the fairs they run at Dulwich College.

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Prize winning horizontal steam engine shows ‘exceptional engineering’

20 February 2023

Steam engine made in France and later installed in Sussex museum graced same exhibition as the Eiffel Tower

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The Open Art Fair called off due to insufficient interest

15 February 2023

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) has been scrapped for this year, the latest in a string of fair cancellations across the market.

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