Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Caroline Penman puts retirement on hold to run next year's Chelsea Antiques Fair
02 September 2019Fair organiser Caroline Penman has abandoned her plan for retirement and will take on the running of the next Chelsea Antiques Fair – but at a reduced length.
Art week aims to promote Stow supercenter
02 September 2019An exhibition of 18th and 19th century Indian mica pictures is a stand-out offering at a new arts festival in the Cotswolds.
Turquoise tempter at Arley Hall
02 September 2019This 1940s Jaeger-LeCoutre Triple Calendar 273175 Mechanical watch is offered for £4200 at the next Arley Hall Antiques & Fine Art Fair.
Fair sets sights on science
02 September 2019Dealer Peter Delehar brings an example of a pioneering protractor to the second edition of the Antique Scientific Instrument Fair.
Wings and wheels speed into Suffolk
02 September 2019A 1935 oil on canvas of a Bugatti and Alfa Romeo speeding along a track is offered for £1550 during English and Continental Antique’s next 'Wings and Wheels' exhibition.
5 Questions: Gavin Claxton of Academy Fine Paintings
02 September 2019Gavin Claxton of Academy Fine Paintings specialises in 19th century British and European oil paintings and is among the exhibitors at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair.
LAPADA fair marks 10 years in Berkeley Square with craftsmanship theme
02 September 2019An intricate rolled paper work from the end of the 17th century comes to this year’s 'LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair' – which takes ‘legendary’ craftsmanship for its theme.
The web shop window: Regency-period teapoy
02 September 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Contents from Shropshire’s 18th century stately home Mawley Hall come fresh to the market at Cheffins
26 August 2019The principal contents of Mawley Hall, the 18th-century country mansion described by Country Life as 'Shropshire’s Baroque masterpiece', will come up for auction in Cambridge next month.
A place going back to the future
26 August 2019Molly and Maud’s Place near York is reprising its open weekend two years after its first staging.
The web shop window: Ballot box from dealer Gerald Mathias
26 August 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Paul Boorman
26 August 2019Paul Boorman of Paul’s Emporium: Islington Antiques offers a range of stock including vintage furniture, paintings, taxidermy and tribal artefacts.
Harvey has a game plan for Petersfield
26 August 2019Dealer David Harvey of WR Harvey brings a remarkably versatile Regency games table, c.1815, to the upcoming Petersfield Antiques Fair.
London gallery goes back to its Cornish roots
26 August 2019Founders who started out in Cornwall showcase four Mod Brit artists hailing from St Ives.
They said what!? The future of mammoth ivory and more from the art and antiques market
25 August 2019Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about a no-deal Brexit, authenticating a Giacometti sculpture and an auction house changing hands.
Winter Olympia returns for second year in new format
23 August 2019The Winter Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, returns for the second edition in its new format this November.
Metropolitan Museum to auction off 300 Asian works of art at Sotheby’s New York
21 August 2019A large jade brushpot from the Qing Dynasty is expected to lead a collection of more than 300 Chinese works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art going under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York this September.
West country dealers keeping busy in August
19 August 2019This still-life painting by Joan Gillchrest (1918-2008), offered for £1995, is part of an online exhibition staged by Devon dealership British Ceramics and Paintings.
The web shop window: English silver-plated student lamps
19 August 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Jacobson shows a personal touch
19 August 2019Bernard Jacobson, who has bought and dealt in works by artists such as Henri Matisse, David Hockney and Ben Nicholson, is not afraid to show off a little.