Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
John Pye to conduct sale of Moorcroft's business and assets
13 May 2025Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd.
Five highlights from dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Sworders
12 May 2025The ‘retirement’ sale of dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Essex saleroom Sworders this week will be held exactly 50 years since he opened his first antiques shop in Derbyshire.
Albrecht Dürer: The printmaker supreme
12 May 2025An artist in high demand in his day, Dürer prints still fascinate collectors. ATG surveys the market for works by great Old Master draughtsman
Interview: Dürer prints represent 'one of the biggest achievements in art history'
12 May 2025ATG speaks to Astrid-Christina Schierz, specialist in Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures at Austrian auction house Dorotheum.
William Nicholson’s portrait of his daughter triples its estimate
09 May 2025Despite ongoing concerns that the current economic uncertainty, anaemic growth and trade tariffs is affecting the supply of major lots, the value to auction houses of paintings by ‘big names’ was underlined at Lyon &Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction.
Indian sculptor’s earliest known work on paper turns heads at Chiswick Auctions
09 May 2025The earliest known painted work by the Indian sculptor Ganpatrao Mhatre (1879-1947) drew international interest at a recent sale at Chiswick Auctions (26% buyer’s premium).
Canaletto once owned by Robert Walpole headlines Christie’s Old Master sale
08 May 2025One of Canaletto’s ‘prime-period’ views of Venice which once hung in 10 Downing Street has emerged at Christie’s.
Rediscovered Tirzah Garwood prints and drawings emerge at Cheffins
07 May 2025The largest group of works by Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) to ever come on the open market in one go will be offered at Cheffins later this month.
National Gallery buys ‘mystery’ altarpiece in £16.4m deal brokered by Sotheby’s
06 May 2025The National Gallery in London has acquired two Old Masters, one of which is a remarkable 16th-century altarpiece bought for £16.4m in a private treaty sale brokered by Sotheby’s.
Seton was championed by Scottish clients in Calcutta
05 May 2025The top price of the recent sale of the Philip Astley-Jones collection came for a portrait with a strong Indian connection.
Topographical views of the East and India land impressive sums
05 May 2025Result for album of watercolours underlines the current demand in salerooms for such subjects
Salvator Mundi drawing from Leonardo’s studio makes five times estimate
01 May 2025An unfinished drawing of the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop drew strong competition at Dorotheum of Vienna this week.
Church and mine: Auction record set for George Chapman at Rogers Jones
30 April 2025At the time that the London-born artist George Chapman (1908-1993) first encountered the Rhondda Valley in 1953, he happened to be reading a series of books by US writer William Faulkner.
Sotheby’s to offer copies of all four Shakespeare Folios as a single lot
28 April 2025Sotheby's is staging a single-lot auction next month, offering copies of all four Shakespeare Folios.
‘Jewel-like’ Harem scene by John Frederick Lewis adds allure to Bonhams sale
25 April 2025A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.
Dealer Daniel Katz sells Spanish Old Master to Getty Museum
23 April 2025The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86).
Dealer sells ‘feminist’ medieval manuscript to Getty Museum
17 April 2025Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Rediscovered Hans Coper vase found in garden flies over estimate at Chiswick Auctions
17 April 2025A monumental work by Hans Coper (1920-81) which was found in a London garden among weeds and covered in snails sold at more than three times estimate at Chiswick Auctions.
Unique Timurid manuscript folio estimated £2m-3m at Christie’s
16 April 2025A folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript will be offered at Christie’s in London on May 1.