Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Portrait miniatures: Hammer highlights and previews from auctions and dealers
07 November 2022A round up of portrait miniatures appearing at auction and offered by dealers.
5 Questions: silver and jewellery specialist Natalie Smith
07 November 2022Natalie Smith owns Woodbridge Antiques in Suffolk and specialises in silver and jewellery.
Portrait miniatures: The ‘indomitable spirit’ of Sarah Biffin
07 November 2022The market presence of Sarah Biffin (1784-1850), a portrait miniaturist born without hands, arms and legs, has been rising over the past few years.
Portrait miniatures: It’s a small world
07 November 2022Despite being buffeted by the vagaries of fashion and now the modern crusade against antique ivory, portrait miniatures have managed to keep a keen collecting base.
The web shop window: A Bow figure of Juno with an eagle
07 November 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Dealer portal 2Covet will no longer run fairs
31 October 2022The team behind 2Covet has closed its events division, abandoning all plans to run fairs.
Dealer makes a Canova cenotaph design find
31 October 2022A dealer has identified a design for a cenotaph to Antonio Canova (1757-1822) in time for the 200th anniversary of the Italian sculptor’s death.
Auctioneer renowned for woodworking tool sales offers art collection at Olympia fair
31 October 2022An exhibition of pictures comes to the next 'Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia' from an unexpected source: the auctioneer in antique woodworking tools David Stanley.
The web shop window: Glass butter dish
31 October 2022Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Chelsea Pensioner portrait offered at Perth exhibition
31 October 2022This English watercolour of a Chelsea Pensioner c.1900, priced at £500, is among the offerings at the Christmas 2022 exhibition held jointly by former business partners Malcolm Innes and Anthony Woodd.
Ladies were flasking for trouble
31 October 2022Solo Antiques brings a Daum glass and silver absinthe or opera muff flask to the next Scone Palace Antiques & Fine Art Fair in Perth.
5 Questions: Duncan Phillips
31 October 2022As well as working in marketing for various major fairs and dealers, Duncan Phillips of Somerset deals in his own right, specialising in 19th and 20th century watercolours and studio ceramics
Twenty years of tribal art
24 October 2022An Abelam hornbill sculpture from Papua New Guinea is among the highlights at the Tribal Art Fair in Amsterdam.
Buy a spaniel from your armchair
24 October 2022An oil of a King Charles Spaniel by Hugh George Shaw (active 1880-95) is among the offerings in the latest edition of the Armchair Art Fair catalogue.
Artist but not a money-maker
24 October 2022Frozen River South Esk, a 1910 oil by David Waterson is one of the offerings in Dominic Sanchez-Cabello’s exhibition Forgotten Masters, Enduring Images.
Feddens galore at British Art Fair
24 October 2022Works by the Modern British artist were abundant as the event returned to Chelsea.
Persian panel court in the action
24 October 2022Three large images of a mother and child are repeated against a ground of animals, pomegranate and cypress trees on this rare Safavid silk velvet panel.
Firsts finds its feet at the Saatchi Gallery
10 October 2022A first edition of 'Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith was one of the star sales at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair, which was back up to full power for its second staging at the Saatchi Gallery.
5 Questions: Anastasia von Seibold
10 October 2022Anastasia von Seibold Japanese Art is one of the emerging dealers in this year’s Asian Art in London. She stages Japanese Prints and Rare Books from a Distinguished Private Collection and Other Works of Art, from October 26-November 6 at Cromwell Place.