Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Battersea's Decorative Fair celebrates strong opening day sales
15 May 2026Dealers at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park were praising the opening day as one of their best.
Busy summer ahead in Bungay
15 May 2026We turn a spotlight on the bustling Suffolk town as a local antiques centre’s flea market is set to expand
Read all about it: our pick of eight new books on art and antiques
15 May 2026Ahead of planning your summer reading, take a look at this selection of recently published art and antiques books.
Five questions with Giles Hume
15 May 2026Giles Hume is a dealer who runs Old Painted Furniture and Earsham Hall Antiques in Bungay
What's in store at The Old Store
15 May 2026Among other recent openings in the centre of Bungay is The Old Store which opened in June 2024.
Rescuers or wreckers? Upcyclers state their case
15 May 2026Giving a new lease of life to otherwise undesirable old items makes for an exciting, if occasionally controversial, line of business.
Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries come to auction this summer
14 May 2026A pair of late Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries with a Spanish connection will be offered at Bonhams on July 2 with a £200,000-300,000 estimate.
Rarely seen Mod Brit print archive to be freely available online following funding boost
13 May 2026A rarely seen print archive featuring work by Mod Brit art greats including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Paula Rego, Ceri Richards and John Piper will soon be available freely online.
Keats’ love letters returned to family after theft now come to auction
12 May 2026A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.
Sir Roy Strong’s garden statuary comes to auction after his beloved The Laskett is set to be sold
12 May 2026Statuary from the garden of art historian, writer and museum curator Sir Roy Strong is to be auctioned at Chorley’s.
New premises for London art gallery and York book dealer among latest moves
11 May 2026The latest Movers & Shakers round up includes new homes for Redfern Gallery and Lucius Books
New fair sprinkles stardust to revive north London scene
08 May 2026With the demise of Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair and Hampstead Antique & Craft Emporium*, a TV casting director has turned her 20 years of experience organising actors and directors to try to fill the north London art and antiques gap.
Garden Museum launches fundraising plea to buy portrait of one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain
07 May 2026Lambeth’s Garden Museum is hoping to raise £420,000 to purchase a portrait of the gardener and plantsman John Ystumllyn (1736-86/88), one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain.
Sale of artist Muriel Jackson's Hampstead home brings 60-strong collection of works to auction
05 May 2026The Hampstead home of Muriel Jackson (1901-77) and her family was sold earlier this year and now around 60 paintings, drawings and wood engravings will be offered at auction directly from the house at 20 Well Walk.
Antiques dealer Lawrence Prentice joins the Lillie Road line-up
01 May 2026A new dealership has joined the ranks of the art, antiques and interior specialists of Fulham’s Lillie Road.
Anti-money laundering rule change welcomed as a time saver
01 May 2026The threshold of qualifying transactions for artworks under UK anti-money laundering rules will change from Euros to British pounds.
Collector Interview: looking back on three decades of restoring a Rochester landmark
01 May 2026Robert Tucker lives in the Grade I-listed Restoration House in Rochester with his partner Jonathan Wilmot.
Headless Mary Magdalen Old Master by Gentileschi takes more than five-times estimate at Vienna auction
30 April 2026A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.
Newmarket museum acquires three large equine portraits via tax scheme
29 April 2026Three large horse portraits by the British artist John Wootton (1682-1764) will be on display at The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket following an allocation from Arts Council’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Monumental 16th century Italian tapestry to be restored thanks to TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund
29 April 2026A huge wool and silk tapestry titled The Meeting of Dante and Virgil and dated to 1546-49 will be restored with funding from The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Museum Restoration Fund.