Fine Art

A large Royal Academy exhibit by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) that drew hefty competition at Dreweatts underlined the strength of the market for early topographical views of the Indian subcontinent by British artists.

St James’s art dealer Willoughby Gerrish has agreed a deal with Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to sell one of Emily Young’s (b.1951) monumental sculptures.

A sculpture offered at Dorotheum, attributed to the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini, soared to nearly 100-times estimate in Austria.

A Dutch Old Master portrait drew notable bidding at Lawrences of Crewkerne (25% buyer’s premium) earlier this month.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The highest price for any work of art sold at auction in France was set at Sotheby’s Paris this week when Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) ‘Iris’ was bid to €43m (£36.1m).

A new auction record for any antiquity has been set at Sotheby’s New York.

A rediscovered drawing by Canaletto (1697-1768) drew a strenuous bidding contest at Oxford auction house Mallams today.

Newporth beach was pretty much the ideal setting for Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) to paint nude figures en plein air.

Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen from a museum on the French Riviera have been recovered almost a month after a burglary.

The largest group of works by Bettina Shaw-Lawrence (1921-2018) ever to have come to the open market will be offered at Cheffins later this month.

Billed as ‘an extremely personal group’, a collection of works by Mary Ellen Best (1809-1891) drew considerable demand at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium) this month.