Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Cheyne Walk house comes down in value
11 August 2025A riverside view of Lindsey House in London’s Cheyne Walk drew decent interest at a recent Bonhams (28% buyer’s premium) sale but ended up selling for markedly less than its last auction appearance 10 years ago.
The face of Burne-Jones by the hand of Rossetti
11 August 2025Two works catalogued as ‘circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)’ caught the attention at a recent sale at Keys in Aylsham, one creeping over estimate but the other smashing it spectacularly.
Garibaldi lands in Colchester
11 August 2025Werner watercolour underlines importance of quality local consignments to regional salerooms
Large group of Robert Jobling lots attract bidders to Newcastle auction
07 August 2025One of the largest groups of pictures by Robert Jobling (1841-1923) ever to come to the market in a single sale appeared at Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest fine art auction.
Large body of work by artist Peter Jackson hits the auction block in Suffolk
06 August 2025In an auction that helped establish a secondary market for the artist and sculptor Peter Jackson (1930-2019), Suffolk saleroom Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) offered a group of 245 works from the collection of the artist’s widow.
New high for Florence Hess as cook’s pictures are served up at auction
05 August 2025Tennants’ latest picture sale in Leyburn featured a group of 26 British Impressionist paintings relating to the artistic communities at Staithes and Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. They raised a hammer total of £32,180.
Rossetti sketches including Burne-Jones portrait turn heads in Norfolk auction
04 August 2025Two works catalogued as ‘circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)’ caught the attention at a recent sale at Keys (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham, one creeping over estimate but the other smashing it spectacularly.
Emerson's pioneering photographic work flows from a ‘US yard sale’ to £40,000 UK result
04 August 2025Rediscovered buried in the back of a closet, a full copy of this landmark book had been untouched for decades
Ruskin Spear's portrait of Margaret Thatcher bags attention as part of prime ministers picture line-up
04 August 2025A set of pictures thought to be the largest collection of portraits of British prime ministers in private hands emerged at Sloane Street Auctions (26.5% buyer’s premium) earlier this summer.
Holy Family from Sacred Heart - but in whose hand?
04 August 2025Among the Italian Old Masters bringing interest at auctions across the country over the summer was an intriguing painting of the Holy Family that emerged at Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh.
Two Churchill maquettes by Oscar Nemon appear at auction seven days apart
04 August 2025When Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill, the wife of Sir Winston, first saw a now-famous bronze sculpture by Oscar Nemon showing her late husband reclining in his seat, she remarked: “This is how I see him and that is how I love him.”
Global auction sales decline but better results for Old Masters and decorative arts
01 August 2025The latest art market report by ArtTactic revealed that global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips fell by 6.2% for the first half of 2025.
‘Charming and dream-like’ Joseph Southall picture sails to £30,000 at Tennants
30 July 2025The highest auction price for Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) for eight years came at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) latest British, European & Sporting Art sale.
Bloomsbury pictures come to the fore at York saleroom’s first Modern Art sale
29 July 2025Three Bloomsbury Group paintings, two by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and one by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), lit up the inaugural Modern Art sale at Duggleby Stephenson of York (25% buyer’s premium).
View of the Louvre adds European flavour to south London sale
25 July 2025Underlining the potential of artworks still to draw European interest in the post-Brexit market, a good number of pictures brought notable bidding from across the Channel at a recent Roseberys auction.
Phillips raises buyer’s premium – but reduces it for ‘early engagement’
23 July 2025Auction house Phillips has introduced a new format for its buyer’s premium.
Rosa Bonheur deer study makes 16 times estimate in Surrey auction
23 July 2025French artist Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) is described in the Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists as ‘a colourful and formidable character, outspoken in her feminine independence’.
Last of the Spencer collection reunites Stanley and Hilda
21 July 2025Billed as ‘the last opportunity to own something very personal from the family’s own collection’, a group of drawings, paintings, letters and memorabilia relating to Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) came to auction from one of the artist’s descendants at Dreweatts.
Memories of the North: Robert Jobling pictures come to auction
21 July 2025A group of works by Robert Jobling (1841-1923), a leading figure in the artistic circles of late 19th century Tyneside, has come to Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland.
Canaletto allows for positive view of the London Old Master series
21 July 2025For a sector often tainted by an inadequate supply of fresh and top-draw material, the latest series of Old Master auctions in London certainly had moments where the core market woes seemed mysteriously absent.