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Illuminated manuscript takes $12m at Christie’s

03 February 2014

The book of hours known as The Rothschild Prayerbook sold for $12m (£7.55m) at Christie’s in New York.

Deadline to help protect Mayfair trade

03 February 2014

Time is running out to have a say on Westminster Council’s bid to create a protected enclave for art and antiques galleries in Mayfair.

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Lost Burns portrait goes home – for the time being

03 February 2014

A lost portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth – thought to be the only one taken from life left in private hands – is to go on loan for display in the poet’s final home in Dumfries.

Paris auctioneers suspended over sham bidding and other misdemeanours

03 February 2014

A Paris auction firm has been banned from holding sales for nine months and two of its auctioneers suspended for three months following a disciplinary hearing by the government body appointed to oversee auction practice in France.

No more fairs to be held at Stoneleigh site

03 February 2014

Fair organisers IACF will no longer be running an event at Stoneleigh.

Dadd watercolour – £200 on eBay

03 February 2014

A British collector has reportedly bought a watercolour, ‘A lady with a Minstrel’ from 1874, by the Victorian artist Richard Dadd on eBay for £200.

Where are they now?

03 February 2014

Update on the galleries that had to move due to the Native Land development in Cork Street: