Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt

Charitable donations among news and updates in BADA Friends' latest newsletter
15 August 2025BADA Friends are supporting two charitable efforts according to the organisation’s second digital newsletter.

Freeman’s Hindman holds auction to benefit the charity of The Winter Show
14 August 2025The Hampton’s Design Edit, a timed online auction from US auction house Freeman’s Hindman, is underway, raising money for East Side House.

Dundas Street galleries bring their A-game for Edinburgh in August
12 August 2025Dealerships on Edinburgh’s historic Dundas Street are staging shows to coincide with the Fringe festival.

Venetian museum buys Canal views of the Italian city from London dealership
11 August 2025Two 18th century scenes of Venice by Bernardo Canal (1664-1744) have been sold to the Italian museum Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia by London dealership Brun Fine Art for a six-figure sum.

A fair price or not: the pros and cons of admission costs discussed
11 August 2025How do art and antiques events set their entry charges and why? ATG asks the experts

Hancocks works with Sarah Harris in special focus on engagement rings
04 August 2025Jeweller Hancocks London has teamed up with style expert Sarah Harris for a digital series focusing on engagement rings.

Datelines and name changes: 40 years of The Decorative Fair
04 August 2025The Decorative Fair marks its 40th anniversary this autumn.

Immerse yourself in John Miller’s art
04 August 2025Image of room with indoor swimming pool is set to star in second auction staged by Messum’s

Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s launches National Collectors’ Day
29 July 2025A London auction house is launching a new day honouring collectors

BADA Prize call for submission as fifth edition announced
22 July 2025‘Antiques of tomorrow’ celebrated in contemporary art award

Timely sales as Treasure House looks to put down roots
21 July 2025With a trio of leading dealers bringing the best of British horology, the Treasure House Fair has become a focus for the clock trade, just as Grosvenor House and Masterpiece were before it.

Ex-auction specialists champion traditional art in august St James’s
21 July 2025Winsor Birch set out in the spring to put together a collection of exceptional works from three centuries of British art. It appears it succeeded.

Needlework collection of former Mallett chief goes to museum in £363,000 deal
14 July 2025An extensive needlework collection built up over 40 years by dealer Lanto Synge has been donated to Ulster Museum in Belfast.

LAPADA Pavilion no longer part of The Game Fair
14 July 2025LAPADA dealers will not take part in this summer’s 'The Game Fair'.

Promising sales for Classic Art London debut
14 July 2025A watercolour by JMW Turner was one of the standout sales at the inaugural edition of Classic Art London (CAL).

Cork Street galleries celebrate the first 100 years
14 July 2025Exhibition titled 'Fear Gives Wings to Courage' celebrates a century of art dealing on London thoroughfare

‘We’d love to be part of it again’: praise for new one-day Studiolo event
14 July 2025Among the events debuting in London this summer was the one-day ‘fair’ Studiolo.

Treasure House concludes with run of sales
07 July 2025London’s Treasure House Fair concluded last week after a seven-day run and many sales.

Eclectic collection of Looe antiques dealer goes under the hammer
07 July 2025Dealer’s art and antiques being dispersed at auction includes Newlyn School works and Clarice Cliff

Indiana and Warhol in Whitechapel photography exhibition
07 July 2025When William John Kennedy (1930-2021) and his wife were in the process of moving house in the mid-2000s, they found a box tucked away in the back of a closet.