Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Five questions with dealer David Marshall
10 June 2024David Marshall runs Hammer and Hand Antiques, which focuses on Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau works.
Dealers' news in brief including positive results at the Little London Art Fair
10 June 2024In dealer news this week we focus on a Modern art fair, a dealer offering a wartime map, the line up at 'PAD London' and the latest initiative at 'FAB Paris'.
Beautifully bound bible among stand-out sales at Firsts
10 June 2024An 18th century folio bible in mosaic binding was among the notable sales at the recent Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair.
Firm follows ‘curious byways’
03 June 2024Latest focus at London dealership is on the homeworkers who bought blanks to embellish with enamel
Dealer loses entire fair stock in van theft
03 June 2024A Colchester dealer has warned the trade of the risk of van thefts after his own vehicle, containing his entire stock for a fair, was taken from his driveway.
Five stars for the Aldeburgh fair
03 June 2024After launching last summer with four dealers, the Aldeburgh Art Fair is back this month with five.
Five questions with art dealer Simon Lamb
03 June 2024Simon Lamb of The Swan Gallery in Sherborne works with his wife Kristina and their son Chris specialising in oil paintings and watercolours 1800-1950, along with antique prints and early maps.
Furniture (and a very big flag) feature strongly in Harrogate
03 June 2024Furniture features as a strong showing at the second Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair of the year.
Charlie Chaplin archive revealing 'perfectionism' goes under the hammer at Bonhams
01 June 2024An extensive archive relating to Charlie Chaplin goes under the hammer at Bonhams next month.
BADA members get to grips with new EU import legislation
29 May 2024Trade organisation holds event covering regulations that will impact art, antiques and antiquities dealers
Charts of the human body, London, the world at the London Map Fair
27 May 2024The annual London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest specialist antiques fair, runs June 15-16 at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington Gore.
Exotic birds from Bussy's brush flock to Browse & Darby
27 May 2024From toucans to parakeets, Browse & Darby’s summer exhibition concerns the exotic birds and other animals painted by Simon Bussy (1870-1954), a French artist linked to the Bloomsbury Set.
Dealers' news in brief including launch of a dealer platform and a new BADA member
27 May 2024In dealer news this week, a Kings Road trader retires, a London dealer launches a new platform and a Leeds firm joins BADA
From the quirky and trendy to the traditional: Battersea Decorative fair reports strong sales
27 May 2024Among the highlight sales at the recent Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair was a George III pine chest of drawers featuring more recent overpainting in willow pattern.
Eye on an Object: 17th century portrait of Mother Louse from new venture
27 May 2024Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Mod Brit dealer puts the spotlight on painter teacher Norman Clark
27 May 2024Show covers highly rated British artist who was content to keep a low profile
Top artworks set to star in LAPADA’s 50th anniversary exhibition
22 May 2024Online show features everything from fine art to furniture, Asian art to antiquities
Eye on an object: A collection of glass slides from Victorian designer John Hardman
20 May 2024Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Showpiece collection of British ceramics comes from Australia
20 May 2024Australian pharmaceutical chemist Robert Francis Burke started building his collection of Chelsea and Worcester porcelain in the 1970s, long before the days of the internet.
Online dealer showcase announced as part of LAPADA 50th anniversary celebration
20 May 2024LAPADA has unveiled plans for its 50th anniversary including a summer exhibition and a new series of events around its flagship fair.