Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Barye bronze trots off to new owner
15 May 2026A bronze by Antoine Barye dating from 1860 was among the stand-out sales at the recent staging of Classic Antique Fairs.
Petworth dealer explains why having a gallery is so important to business
15 May 2026For its summer show this year, Ottocento packs its Petworth gallery with the works of Modern British masters: John Nash, Henry Moore, David Bomberg, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and more besides.
Buxton buzz now lasts for three days not nine
15 May 2026This month, the Buxton Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair celebrates 60 years. Now the longest-running vetted art and antiques fair in the UK, it runs from May 29-31 at The Octagon at the Pavilion Gardens.
No to Dr No: ‘basically very old-fashioned Fu Manchu stuff’
08 May 2026James Bond may well now be a hugely popular multi-billion earning film franchise but a group of rare reports by a film studio evaluating the original books show the raw reaction was one of rejection and even ridicule. ATG interviews the dealer now selling these fascinating snapshots of the 007 world
First days of the US and much more
08 May 2026Ahead of a very busy period for the trade, we kick off our guide to the events coming up with a London fair marking the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.
Collector interview: Book buying is such a blast
08 May 2026Callum White, a young book collector from Birmingham, won last year’s ABA National Book Collecting Prize awarded in December for his collection Splitting the world: The atomic scientists and their second acts. He told ATG about his background, how he started the collection and his plans for it
Potter around a special Battersea selection
01 May 2026Gardening and vernacular furniture displayed as imagined from Beatrix Potter's Mr McGregor’s garden shed forms a highlight from the upcoming The Decorative Fair on May 12-17
London and Paris trio team up for Orientalism show
01 May 2026'At the Door of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus', c.1889-91, was painted by Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904), one of the leading Orientalist painters of Germany.
Turner prints quest leads to latest exhibition at Mayfair art dealer Gerrish Fine Art
01 May 2026The quest for Turner prints is a constant in the career of British art dealer Hilary Gerrish, who started trading in 1971.
Museums boost results at Asia Week New York
30 April 2026Museums came prepared to buy at the recent staging of Asia Week New York.
Flurry of exhibitions launched by art and antiques dealers for spring
24 April 2026A round up of gallery shows launched this month.
Key work by Joseph Southall secured for dealers' show just in the nick of time
24 April 2026Next month’s exhibition on Joseph Southall (1861-1944), a joint effort by dealers Harry Moore-Gwyn and Sarah Colegrave, was six years in the making, yet the key piece came to the duo at nearly the last moment.
Ann Lee Warner made an impact with a stellar chinoiserie cabinet
24 April 2026Female artists and makers are well represented at this year’s Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Of particular note is Ann Lee Warner, about whom little is known, but whose name appears on a lacquer cabinet offered by Reindeer Antiques.
Golden opportunity to buy a work marking Magna Carta anniversary
24 April 2026Peter Harrington Rare Books presents a selection of British treasures fit to delight a US audience at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.
Prolific John Piper in demand in galleries and at auction
17 April 2026Despite a recent work on paper auction record, the artist’s works remain relatively affordable according to specialists
Nansen’s book travelled to South Pole with Amundsen
17 April 2026Arch Books of Richmond, southwest London, recently sold the personal expedition copy of Fridtjof Nansen’s Fram over Polhavet [Farthest North] (1897), owned and signed by fellow Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928).
Record price shows another Rossetti could be on the rise
17 April 2026Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (1843-94) was linked to two of the most famous artistic families of the 19th century.
Why artist Joseph Southall chose to go to work on an egg
17 April 2026Joseph Southall’s (1861-1944) picture Cymon and Iphigenia was probably made with the help of the artist’s chickens.
Manhattan’s Schoelkopf Gallery focus on collector Robert A Ellison
17 April 2026Collector Robert A Ellison was obsessively acquisitive.
The best genre art generates big prices
17 April 2026A strong result for a 19th century genre picture was achieved for the Italian artist Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1939) at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn, North Yorkshire.