Fine Art

View of The Great Comet by George Buchanan Wollaston flies high at London saleroom Roseberys

Bonhams holds faith with specialist travel and exploration auctions

…whose painting skill is now clear… as a first selling exhibition for 30 years underlines

The photography collecting world has lost one of its longest established members, greatest advocates and one of its true individuals.

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) first met Cicely Hey at a public lecture in 1923. The very next day Hey arrived at his studio in Fitzroy Street and continued to sit for Sickert over the next decade.

A bronze figure of Mars from the studio of Giambologna will be one of the highlights in a sale of furniture, paintings, sculpture and works of art to be held at Drouot by L’Huillier on April 2.

This elaborate still-life featuring a vase containing a rich variety of flowers including roses, peonies and tulips, is a work by Maria van Oosterwyck (1630-93), a 17th century Dutch golden age female artist who specialised in still-life subjects.

A late work by LS Lowry (1887-1976), which had never appeared on the open market before, overshot a £60,000- 90,000 estimate at Tennants’ latest Modern & Contemporary art sale.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The city of Liverpool holds a special place in the oeuvre of John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93).

Young cricket player stars among the varied lots from estate of journalist and author

Drawings by the great fell-walking guidebook author catch the mood of escapism

This rediscovered portrait depicts a youthful-looking William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

The work of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) will feature prominently in the dedicated sale of Old Master and 19th century drawings at Christie’s Paris.

Sir Winston Churchill’s towering presence in the art market was on full display last week as his auction record was broken four-and-a-half times over.

Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.

This oil on board by the French artist Luigi Loir (1845-1916) depicting a beach scene, is one of the lots that will feature in Crescent City Auction Galleries’ three-day spring sale to be held from March 12-14 in New Orleans.

Traditional high-society portrait by Sir Oswald Birley finds modern-day auction fans including an overseas buyer

Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’

Without the usual January influx of collectors, curators and dealers to the Big Apple, two significant art-buying dealer events decided to go virtual. For some exhibitors, the results were better than expected.