Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Peterloo pearlware jug offered at Art & Antiques for Everyone fair on bicentenary of massacre in Manchester
25 March 2019A rare antique jug commemorating the events of the Peterloo Massacre is on offer in Birmingham on the 200th anniversary of the event.
How artist George Baxter made an impression
25 March 2019In 1835, artist George Baxter (1804-67) patented his method for affordable, mass produced colour printing. The combination intaglio and relief process became known as the ‘Baxter method,’ and the resulting images are a window into how Victorians viewed the major events of the mid-19th century.
Turn the spotlight on the the Gold Anchor period
25 March 2019Offered for £18,000, a pair of Chelsea baluster shaped vases were one of the highlight sales at Albert Amor’s show of Chelsea Gold Anchor period work from a private collection.
Please sir, it was the Eton boys
25 March 2019A piece of recycled wood used to make an Arts & Crafts reading table on offer at WR Harvey has been revealed to contain the names of mischievous boys from Eton College.
NEC’s aristocratic credentials underlined
25 March 2019Recalling the Marchioness of Townsend and Lady Stanhope at the Antiques for Everyone fair.
Portrait of an art dealer
25 March 2019This 1937 portrait of art dealer Ambroise Vollard is included in an exhibition of Picasso ceramics, linocuts, etchings, lithographs and books at Peter Harrington’s Fulham Road gallery.
A further history of dealing
25 March 2019Historic artefacts from leading antiques dealers feature in an exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds.
The web shop window
25 March 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including reactions to Heinz buying back its golden bean
24 March 2019Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about marathon auctions, master marketeers and much more.
Constable cloud studies inspire Lindy Guinness exhibition at London gallery Browse & Darby
23 March 2019Paintings by Lindy Guinness reinterpreting the cloud studies of John Constable (1776-1837) go on show at Browse & Darby next week.
Rediscovered Joseph Wright of Derby painting sold to major institution in roundup of further TEFAF sales
22 March 2019An unpublished work by Joseph Wright of Derby’s is among the further sales reported from this year’s TEFAF Maastricht.
Garage sale-find Chinese bronze valued on US ‘Antiques Roadshow’ makes $1.7m at Sotheby’s auction
21 March 2019A Chinese gilt bronze figure bought at a garage sale and appraised on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow sold yesterday in New York for $1.7m (£1.3m) – around 21 times its upper estimate and more than 17,000 times its original purchase price.
Berlin Wall fragments sell in West Sussex auction
19 March 2019Two fragments of the Berlin Wall once used in a memorial to those killed in escape attempts sold for a combined hammer total of £17,000 at an auction in West Sussex last week.
The early bird sales at TEFAF Maastricht
18 March 2019Eager buyers made a beeline for Delft fruits, a Renoir and Paul Storr silver candlesticks in the first few hours of TEFAF Maastricht this year.
The web shop window: Rewind Vintage
18 March 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Guy Peppiatt offers rediscovered selection of Welsh watercolours by John ‘Warwick’ Smith
18 March 2019St James’s exhibition shows works of a watercolourist seduced by British rural beauty.
5 Questions: Silver specialist Stephen Kalms
18 March 2019Stephen Kalms set up his antique silver business in The London Silver Vaults in 1991. He specialises in 18th-20th century works, particularly Victorian and Edwardian pieces up to the present.
First solo show of modern British painter Dorothy Rendell at Abbott and Holder
18 March 2019An oil on board painting Rotherhithe from Wapping Pierhead (c.1955) is among the works by Dorothy Rendell (1923-2018) currently on show at Abbott and Holder where it is offered for £2750.
LARTA Fair sales include textiles from east and west
18 March 2019A c.1710 English hunting scene embroidered in deep green crewel work and offered for £1800 by Meg Andrews Antique Costumes & Textiles was one of the stand-out sales at The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA).
ADFL reports fairs turnout good but biggest buys on hold
18 March 2019Furniture sales at The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited’s (ADFL) first two events of the year contributed to solid results despite the uncertain political climate.