Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Dealer news in brief including Ukrainian aid efforts and a portrait miniature reattribution
14 March 2022A roundup of news and events from around the trade
Bath Decorative Fair celebrates spring with return to former spot in the calendar
14 March 2022Traders look forward to fairs such as Bath after numerous challenges of sourcing new items
Ukraine crisis funds raised by art and antiques market
10 March 2022Dealers, fairs organisers and auction houses are using the proceeds of sales to raise money to aid victims of the Ukrainian crisis.
The Open Art Fair organiser plans for return
07 March 2022The organiser of The Open Art Fair (TOAF) in Chelsea vows the event will return next year.
Dealer offers Nelson portrait from Boydell’s 500-guinea prize
07 March 2022A painting of the Battle of Trafalgar containing “one of the most important portraits of Nelson on the market in years” will be on offer in Chelsea.
Connect with art again
07 March 2022Among the highlights at this month’s Connect Art Fair is an untitled c.1968/71 gouache on paper by British-Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams, offered for £4500 by Middlemarch Art.
Alberto Martini out of the shadows
07 March 2022An intricately drawn self-portrait in pen and ink in which the artist likens himself to Albrecht Dürer is at the heart of a new show on Alberto Martini.
The web shop window: 19th century hall lantern
07 March 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Petersfield returns after two-year gap
07 March 2022Petersfield Antiques Fair returns to the Hampshire town’s Festival Hall after two years’ absence, due to the NHS using the venue for Covid vaccinations.
Chelsea Antiques & Fine Art Fair has risen up the ranks
07 March 2022With two key London fairs cancelled, this long-running event is well placed
5 Questions: Asian art dealer Shanshan Wang
07 March 2022Shanshan Wang is among the exhibitors at this month’s Chelsea Antiques & Fine Art Fair. She focuses on early Asian art from the Neolithic era to the 10th century and also produces contemporary pieces of her own.
'Masked and Shadowy': the world of Alberto Martini comes to London
01 March 2022An intricately drawn self-portrait in pen and ink, in which the artist likens himself to Albrecht Durer is at the heart of a new show on Alberto Martini.
Dealer and Antiques Roadshow veteran Ian Harris calls it a day at ‘84 and a half’
28 February 2022Dealer and BBC Antiques Roadshow veteran Ian Harris is auctioning the majority of his stock as the company N Bloom & Son closes after more than a century.
Practical help now to hand
28 February 2022Apelles Fine Art Services, a firm specialising in end-to-end practical management and maintenance of artwork, has been founded by James Birtwistle in response to what he sees is a lack of practical hands-on familiarity with paintings and drawings among buyers.
Righting the wrongs with exhibitions for International Women’s Day
28 February 2022A look at exhibitions staged to coincide with the international day of celebration
5 Questions: art dealer Angela Mullany
28 February 2022Angela Mullany is director of Mullany Haute Epoque Fine Art in St James’s London.
Hartnoll figures it’s time to promote neglected art
28 February 2022'Window to Hardy Road', 1965, by John Bratby (1928-92) is among the figurative works offered at Julian Hartnoll’s next exhibition 'Unjustly Forgotten: Unjustly Neglected'.
The web shop window: A set of 1950s Danish chairs
28 February 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Firsts Online offers collectors a spot of armchair travelling
25 February 2022From an 18th century bestseller to a 20th century modern fantasy first edition, the Antiquarian Booksellers Association’s fair offers buyers a chance to snap up antiquarian and rare books from the comfort of their homes this weekend.
Inside stories: How new focus on improving home spaces has boosted antique and vintage items
21 February 2022Long periods of life at home because of Covid restrictions for both lifestyle and work reasons have encouraged a trend for younger buyers in particular to target second-hand items from auction houses and dealers