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Dorset

Farquharson brings the sun to Dorset
02 December 2019Included among more than 70 paintings and prints offered at Dorset saleroom Clarke’s Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) was this uncharacteristic Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935) oil of the artist’s garden in Aberdeenshire.

Beastly Beswick rarities in demand
18 November 2019In the resilient Beswick market, collectors paid high prices for some rarities – even modern prototypes – at autumn sales.

Chinese works from Anthony Du Boulay collection generates bonanza at Duke's
18 November 2019Duke’s latest Asian art sale had been headlined by items from a local resident and well-known auctioneer, academic and collector, Anthony du Boulay. The 249 lots from early classic wares to Cantonese enamels generated plenty of saleroom energy and a total of around £800,000.

Rare Chinese teapot makes a record £800,000 at Dorset auction
12 November 2019A rare Qianlong celadon-glaze pear-shaped teapot has set a record for Asian art week this season selling at £800,000 at Duke’s.

Tudor manor houses artistic gems from across the centuries
28 October 2019The old-fashioned country house sale hardly ever fails to cause excitement. The on-the-premises sale of contents from Athelhampton House, a Tudor manor house in Puddletown, Dorset, was no exception.

Missing in action but spotted shooting at a bottle of schnapps
28 October 2019‘Highly unusual’ is how the Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) cataloguer described a Second World War medal group ahead of its sale in Dorchester on August 22 for £420, just over top estimate.

Dorset country house auction takes over £1m
14 October 2019Last week’s on-the-premises sale at Athelhampton House in Dorset was a near sell-out with a hammer price of close to £1.2m.

'Witch' mirrors enchant buyers at Duke's auction
14 October 2019Catalogued as ‘witch’ mirrors, this c.1970 pair certainly charmed bidders at Dorchester auction house Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium). The key was the signature Line Vautrin, ROI for the Parisienne designer and decorative artist Line Vautrin (1913-97).

Two Mod Brit works back on market in Dorset saleroom
14 October 2019Oil paintings by two significant names in Modern British art made their first appearances on the market in decades at an auction in Dorset.

10 top lots on offer at Duke’s auction of contents from Athelhampton House
03 October 2019“Good old-fashioned country house auctions are a rarity these days and it is a privilege to organise one against such an historic backdrop.” So says Guy Schwinge of Dorchester auction house Duke’s, referring to the upcoming sale of the contents from Athelhampton House in Dorset.

Pugilist pioneers bid to punchy price at Dorset saleroom
23 September 2019Daniel Mendoza is considered one of the first ‘modern’ boxers – one who helped elevate boxing to a sport rather than just two blokes beating each other up.

On the scent of Emms - sporting scene hunted out at auction
16 September 2019It was while working as a studio assistant to Lord Leighton in the early 1860s that John Emms (1841-1912) travelled to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, a trip that would define his career as a painter of dog portraits and sporting scenes.

Fashionable woman is all the rage at auction
02 September 2019Estimated at £100-150, this mid-20th century portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman attracted a flurry of bids at Sherborne saleroom Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium).

Prolific painter pair appears in Dorset saleroom
12 August 2019Landscape painter Sidney Richard Percy (1821-86) is described in Christopher Wood’s Dictionary of Victorian Painters as “a prolific and variable painter, and his prices vary accordingly”.

Pick of the week: ‘Blonde bombshell’ poster makes big impact at auction
22 July 2019A controversial Second World War poster by renowned designer Abram Games (1914-96) has sold for what is believed to be an auction record.

Classic wartime posters impress in Dorset auction including a probable Abram Games record price
18 July 2019A poster which is one of the most famous worldwide is also one of the rarest: just six copies of the British First World War design showing a fierce Kitchener pointing at YOU are known to exist.

Complete set of classic Art Deco-style vintage travel posters by Tom Purvis for sale at auction for the first time
27 June 2019A rare opportunity to buy a whole set of one of the most popular Art Deco-style travel posters ever produced is coming up at auction on July 12.

Elisabeth Frink maquette flies to five figures
27 May 2019Inside Manchester Airport stands a sculpture dedicated to John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two aviators who made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.

The elusive earlier John Frederick Lewis
27 May 2019While the 19th century English painter John Frederick Lewis (1805-76) is chiefly remembered for his major Orientalist creations – several of which have sold for more than £1m at auction – much less is known about his early career.

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