Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Archive details jewel design developments
15 September 2025In Paris this autumn, Les Enluminures holds Jewels on Paper: Secrets of Creation, comprising an archive of design spanning the 18th century to the 1970s. Running from September 18 to October 31, it is accompanied by a fully illustrated book.
London jewellery dealer offers Downton Abbey delights
15 September 2025Head from your local cinema to London’s Piccadilly: jeweller Bentley & Skinner is offering 13 pieces featured in the new film Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
Rountree Tryon gallery returns to the city from Sussex
15 September 2025Fine art dealership Rountree Tryon is returning to St James’s, London, its home for many years, after a stint in Petworth.
Surreal sensations go on show
15 September 2025A gold pendant, Tête aux Seins, by Max Ernst is one of the artist-made jewels starring at Louisa Guinness Gallery’s Surrealist Jewels 101 show.
British Museum buys pair of Gainsborough Dupont sketches from dealer Karen Taylor
08 September 2025Art dealer Karen Taylor has sold two oil sketches by Gainsborough Dupont (1754-97) to the British Museum.
Ed Butcher in King’s Road move
08 September 2025Mid-century specialist Ed Butcher has opened a new shop at 281 King’s Road, Chelsea.
US fair aims for a more inclusive approach
08 September 2025New York fair 'Salon Art + Design' is making some tweaks behind the scenes as the brand expands.
FAB Paris hopes to take advantage of new date in a ‘wonderful month for the arts’
08 September 2025For its fourth edition, 'FAB Paris', the premier French art fair that unites 'Biennale des Antiquaires' and 'Fine Arts Paris', brings a wealth of top exhibitors, special exhibitions and a new date.
Newcomers to LAPADA event endorse fairs as vital sales channel
01 September 2025A notable group of newcomers joining the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair next month underlines the important part that fairs still play in the success of antiques dealers.
Dealer sells Spilliaert self-portrait to Chicago art institute
01 September 2025A self-portrait by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) featured on the stand of David Lévy at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Antiques grace elegant room sets in dealers' tie-up
01 September 2025Brownrigg, a furniture and decorative dealer in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, is partnering with Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler of Pimlico Road.
Panoramic romantic rural scenes produced as a pair stay together for sale
01 September 2025A pair of panoramic oil on canvas landscapes by French artist Raymond Thibésart (1874-1963) makes for a stand-out item at fine art dealership Gladwell & Patterson’s next exhibition, Treasures.
Modern British art on offer at Chelsea fair includes painting that hints at a turbulent relationship
01 September 2025On John Swarbrooke Fine Art’s stand at British Art Fair this month is a relic of a long yet turbulent friendship between two 20th century artists.
Crane Kalman Gallery’s Lowry links
01 September 2025Joining 'British Art Fair' this year is Crane Kalman Gallery of Knightsbridge, which offers a selection of paintings and works on paper by LS Lowry, who had a longstanding connection with the firm.
Belgian symbolist portrait shown at TEFAF acquired by Art Institute of Chicago
26 August 2025A self-portrait by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) featured on the stand of David Lévy at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Petersfield ticks the 20th century box for Cooper’s second edition in charge
25 August 2025The enamel-faced Art Nouveau pewter clock shown here features on the stand of Morgan Strickland Fine Arts at the next Petersfield Antiques Fair, where it is offered for £2600.
European firms find Korea opportunity
25 August 2025A selection of European galleries join the Masters section at Frieze Seoul as the fair returns for its fourth edition from September 3-6.
Hockney salutes a slap-up meal
25 August 2025Photo included in latest Armchair catalogue captures him enjoying the good life at Glyndebourne
Five questions with Ben Cooper
25 August 2025Ben Cooper appears on BBC’s Bargain Hunt, is one half of Two C’s Antiques Fairs and is the organiser of the Petersfield Antiques Fair.
Cardiff gallery sets out a path to Mills
25 August 2025This 2018 ink and pastel on paper 'Yn y Dyffryn - Y Llwybr' (In the Valley - The Path) by Welsh artist Eleri Mills is among the works on offer at Cardiff’s Celf Gallery.