Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Arms fair roll call shows dealers are out in force
01 April 2019Historic military specialist Michael D Long offers this Victorian Royal Artillery officer’s sabretache and pouch for £785 at the London Antique Arms Fair.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including a fraud warning
31 March 2019Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about the Old Master market, Summer Olympia and more.
Top stories this week – including a new antiques show from TV presenter Paul Martin
30 March 2019The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news that former ‘Flog It!’ presenter Paul Martin will launch his programme ‘Curiosity’ next month.
Vietnam War picture by Don McCullin offered at Battersea Decorative fair
29 March 2019A powerful photograph of soldiers in the Vietnam War taken by Sir Don McCullin in the 1960s is among the highlights at the Spring Decorative Antiques and textiles fair next month.
New look and extended run for summer Olympia as antiques fair separates from House & Garden Festival
27 March 2019Organisers of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia have revamped its look, dates and marketing strategy for this year’s summer edition in a move to distinguish it from the simultaneous House & Garden Festival.
Mallams Auctioneers holds selling exhibition of works by author and ‘last living surrealist’ Desmond Morris
27 March 2019A selling show of surrealist paintings by artist and scientist Desmond Morris takes place at Mallams in Oxford next month.
CADA fair faces uncertain future as works on Blenheim Palace venue are announced
26 March 2019Details of next year’s Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) fair are uncertain as works on its historic venue, Blenheim Palace, have been announced.
Early BADA 2019 sales augur well for London fair
25 March 2019A pair of early George III carved walnut Gainsborough chairs, c.1765, were among the early highlight sales at BADA 2019. Offered from the stand of Richard Courtney in excellent original condition, they sold for a price in the region of £70,000.
Antiques Roadshow garage sale find brings $1.7m during New York Asia Week auctions
25 March 2019A 9th century gilt bronze figure bought at a Missouri garage sale and later appraised on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow was the toast of the New York Asia Week auctions.
Peterloo pearlware jug offered at Art & Antiques for Everyone fair on bicentenary of massacre in Manchester
25 March 2019A rare antique jug commemorating the events of the Peterloo Massacre is on offer in Birmingham on the 200th anniversary of the event.
How artist George Baxter made an impression
25 March 2019In 1835, artist George Baxter (1804-67) patented his method for affordable, mass produced colour printing. The combination intaglio and relief process became known as the ‘Baxter method,’ and the resulting images are a window into how Victorians viewed the major events of the mid-19th century.
Turn the spotlight on the the Gold Anchor period
25 March 2019Offered for £18,000, a pair of Chelsea baluster shaped vases were one of the highlight sales at Albert Amor’s show of Chelsea Gold Anchor period work from a private collection.
Please sir, it was the Eton boys
25 March 2019A piece of recycled wood used to make an Arts & Crafts reading table on offer at WR Harvey has been revealed to contain the names of mischievous boys from Eton College.
NEC’s aristocratic credentials underlined
25 March 2019Recalling the Marchioness of Townsend and Lady Stanhope at the Antiques for Everyone fair.
Portrait of an art dealer
25 March 2019This 1937 portrait of art dealer Ambroise Vollard is included in an exhibition of Picasso ceramics, linocuts, etchings, lithographs and books at Peter Harrington’s Fulham Road gallery.
A further history of dealing
25 March 2019Historic artefacts from leading antiques dealers feature in an exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds.
The web shop window
25 March 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including reactions to Heinz buying back its golden bean
24 March 2019Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about marathon auctions, master marketeers and much more.
Constable cloud studies inspire Lindy Guinness exhibition at London gallery Browse & Darby
23 March 2019Paintings by Lindy Guinness reinterpreting the cloud studies of John Constable (1776-1837) go on show at Browse & Darby next week.
Rediscovered Joseph Wright of Derby painting sold to major institution in roundup of further TEFAF sales
22 March 2019An unpublished work by Joseph Wright of Derby’s is among the further sales reported from this year’s TEFAF Maastricht.