Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Christie’s to offer works from the Weis collection in flagship New York series
05 September 2025Christie’s will offer works from the collection of Robert and Patricia Weis at its upcoming series of Modern and Contemporary art auctions in New York.
National Trust acquires two Joshua Reynolds paintings in £24.5m tax deal
04 September 2025Two key paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) have been acquired by the National Trust from the Rothschild collection.
Large cast of Mercié’s David statue emerges at Canterbury Auction Galleries
03 September 2025Antonin Mercié’s (1845-1916) sculpture of David vanquishing Goliath caused a real stir when the French artist first exhibited the original plaster model in 1872.
Shannon portrait turns heads at Surrey auction
28 August 2025Among the most eye-catching pictures that emerged at the summer auctions around the country were a couple of early 20th century portraits of young women.
Cricket picture market: a pitch with plenty of cracks
27 August 2025The sticky wicket in terms of the market for cricketing pictures was in evidence this summer as Dreweatts (27% buyer’s premium) sold off a large group of works from the collection of the late Mark Loveday.
Racing and romanticism: Two watercolours bringing demand at Lincolnshire auction
26 August 2025Two works on paper caught bidders’ eyes at a sale at Stamford Auction Rooms (24% buyer’s premium) this summer.
Edward VII drawing gets stamp of approval from bidders
22 August 2025If this small portrait of Edward VII looks a bit like a postage stamp, that’s no surprise.
Sotheby’s to open Breuer Building premises ahead of flagship New York sales
21 August 2025Auction house Sotheby’s has announced the opening date of its New York headquarters at the Breuer Building.
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.