Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
BADA fair aims at exceptional quality
04 March 2019Annual BADA event includes copy of Reni work commissioned by the pope or a cardinal.
Woolf work in women’s show
04 March 2019A first-edition presentation copy of Jacob’s Room (1922) by Virginia Woolf bearing an inscription to her sister Vanessa Bell is on offer for £85,000 at Peter Harrington’s exhibition In Her Own Words: Works by Exceptional Women.
5 Questions: Karen Taylor
04 March 2019Art dealer Karen Taylor is among the exhibitors at this month’s BADA 2019 (March 20-26).
Pop-up shop ready to open in Kensington
04 March 2019Hill House Antiques & Decorative Arts has launched a pop-up shop in Kensington Church Street.
Relic ready to give a dealer lift at Scone Palace fair
25 February 2019A rare Georgian invalid’s ‘chair lift’ is one of the highlights at the Scone Palace Antiques & Fine Art Fair.
5 Questions: dealer Sarah Delves
25 February 2019Sarah Delves of Bags of Glamour is an exhibitor at the next Art & Antiques for Everyone fair (April 4-7).
Philip Mould holds miniature exhibition in London gallery
25 February 2019Dealer Philip Mould stages 'Jewel in the Hand: Early Portrait Miniatures from Noble and Private Collections' at its Pall Mall gallery from March 12-April 18.
5 Questions: Rob Shaw
25 February 2019Chichester dealer Rob Shaw is a regular stallholder in the George Stephenson building at IACF Newark. He is a general dealer in antiques but specialises in Chinese works of art.
Show under starter’s orders at Michael Hoppen Gallery
25 February 2019An untitled photograph of a horse race is among the wide selection of photographs on offer from Michael Hoppen Gallery’s exhibition Simply the Best featuring works of 20th century sports photographer Gerry Cranham (b.1928).
Miniatures in the mainstream as London show coincides with major exhibition
25 February 2019A dealer's one-day London show comes hot on the heels of major exhibitions that are drumming up interest in miniatures.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including the record-breaking sale of a Super Mario Bros video game
24 February 2019“We all knew how hard it is to find an open copy of this version in nice condition…” Just in case you don’t know, read more about the auction of a classic video game and much more with our roundup of quotes from the art and antiques trade.
New Spanish art fair puts focus on the avant-garde and surreal
23 February 2019A new fair showcasing avant-garde and modern art, including works by Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall and Fernand Léger, opens in Madrid next week.
Welsh antiques dealer enhances contemporary art show with loan of traditional furniture
20 February 2019A 19th century Welsh oak bureau is among the furniture that Carmarthenshire dealer Tim Bowen has lent to enhance a local exhibition on creativity.
A Victorian who’s who: Dealer offers 'last of Frith's panoramas in private hands'
18 February 2019A 19th century masterpiece by William Powell Frith (1819- 1909) that serves as a who’s who of influential Victorians is on offer from a new St James’s gallery for £10m.
Pick of the week: Maker’s great-grandson buys back model steam engine for family from UK dealer
18 February 2019An exceptional Victorian scratch-built model steam engine has returned home after the maker’s great-grandson bought it from UK dealer Vavasseur Antiques.
Former Wace director Brown to go it alone
18 February 2019Claire Brown, formerly director of Rupert Wace Ancient Art, has launched a new independent venture after 30 years in the art and antiques trade.
Captain Scarlet doll, Napoleon’s signature, and other art and antiques to buy in the East of England next week
18 February 2019A 1967 doll from the classic show 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions' is among the art and antiques going under the hammer in the East of England next week.
Scottish Colourist with a world view
18 February 2019'Portrait of a Woman in a Hat' by the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) is among the 71 drawings and watercolours currently on show at Mayfair art gallery Browse & Darby.
5 Questions: Mark Murray
18 February 2019Mark Murray of Mark Murray Fine Paintings is currently holding his Winter Exhibition at his East 63rd Street gallery, New York.
Collector interview: Cold War propaganda is book buyer's hot topic
18 February 2019In the latest of our occasional series of collector interviews, we talk to Musa Igrek, who won the ABA Book Collecting Prize 2018 for his assemblage of secretly funded government-sponsored works during the Cold War.