Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Rare book fair returns to Dublin after three years
08 April 2026A new book fair is being planned for the summer in Ireland.
Art UK completes project to digitally record the UK's murals and street art
07 April 2026The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.
Strawberry Hill House launches latest fundraising appeal for Walpole-commissioned painting
02 April 2026Strawberry Hill House, the London home created by the famed historian, collector and social commentator Horace Walpole (1717-97), is fundraising to buy a picture once in his collection.
New auction houses, expansions and hires – the latest news from across the auctioneering world
02 April 2026A new auction house in the Wirral and an Indian auction house expanding into the UK feature in this Movers & Shakers round up.
The Getty Museum buys two 17th century Dutch still life paintings
01 April 2026The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz (1597/98-1660).
Plea to find Coalbrookdale benches and sundial stolen in Herefordshire
01 April 2026The owner of a group of four antique Coalbrookdale benches and a decorative armillary sundial has made a plea to the antiques trade to look out for her stolen garden items.
Somerset antiques dealer launches curated collection in London interiors shop
31 March 2026Rebecca Christie-Miller Antiques has extended links with interiors shop Pentreath & Hall and will promote a curated collection of antiques in its Rugby Street showroom in Bloomsbury.
Dorset museum’s fundraising secures letter from pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning at Bonhams auction
27 March 2026The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum’s fundraising campaign raised enough to buy a letter fragment from Mary Anning (1799-1847) offered at a Bonhams auction.
Dealers in St James’s warn that rent rises could lead to firms closing
27 March 2026The threat of significant rent rises in the heart of the historic art and antiques district of St James’s, London, have forced at least two galleries to contemplate leaving the area.
Madley back at the crease (or rostrum in this case)
27 March 2026Auctioneer Richard Madley has returned to the cricketing rostrum.
Indian auction house AstaGuru expands into the UK
27 March 2026Indian online-only auction house AstaGuru has expanded into the UK and set up home in west London.
Collection from former art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine comes to auction
26 March 2026Part of the private art collection of Michael Rand (1929-2025), the art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine, will be offered at Sworders.
Three ways to celebrate artist Cedric Morris: a talk, exhibition and garden tour
24 March 2026The reopening of Benton End as a museum and garden later this year has sparked a wave of Cedric Morris-related events.
Historical archive of Scottish Enlightenment mathematician and innovator blocked from export
23 March 2026An extensive 18th century archive relating to James Stirling (1692-1770) has been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the funds to keep it in the UK.
Portobello Road dealers set for further disruption in arcade refurb
20 March 2026Further disruption will hit dealers on Portobello Road with plans for a “comprehensive refurbishment” of one of the street’s antiques arcades.
Beatrice Campi joins Essex saleroom Sworders
20 March 2026Indian and Islamic Art specialist Beatrice Campi has joined auction house Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex.
Dorset museum launches fundraising campaign for letter from pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning
20 March 2026The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum has launched a fundraising campaign in the hope it can secure a letter fragment written by the English fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847). It is being offered at a Bonhams auction this month.
Movie buffs dream auction features more than 1500 props and collectables
20 March 2026Auction house Propstore is calling film fans and collectors to its three-day Entertainment Memorabilia sale.
New faces at Sworders and Gorringe's and a promotion at Woolley & Wallis
18 March 2026The latest Movers & Shakers from around the world of art and antiques
Police appeal after antique silverware stolen from Hertfordshire church
17 March 2026A large amount of silver objects were taken from a village church in Hertfordshire including two chalices, a silver communion flagon, a silver plate and a box of other silver objects.