Fine Art

Fine art is a staple of the dealing and auctioneering industry, featuring works ranging from Medieval art to traditional Old Masters, and right through to cutting-edge Contemporary art.

While oil paintings represent a large part of the sector, other mediums adopted by artists across the ages include drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs.

Giuseppe Castiglione painting

Earliest known Castiglione court painting to headline Sotheby’s Hong Kong series

01 May 2026

Asian Art Week at Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be led by the earliest extant court painting by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).

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De László portraits rediscovered in North Carolina auction

01 May 2026

Two pictures relating to the family of former US president George HW Bush added to catalogue raisonné

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London gallery expands horizons as 15th to 19th century art is paired with focus on photography

01 May 2026

On a hot afternoon in 2000, as part of his broader exploration of marginalised communities, Italian photographer Marco Delogu (b.1960) visited a Roma camp on the outskirts of Rome.

Robert Tucker in his home in Rochester

Collector Interview: looking back on three decades of restoring a Rochester landmark

01 May 2026

Robert Tucker lives in the Grade I-listed Restoration House in Rochester with his partner Jonathan Wilmot.

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Beauty of Brancusi’s world caught on camera

01 May 2026

Galerie Negropontes has turned to photography to explore the work of another canonical artist.

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London calling for Welsh art as more Kyffin Williams works set high prices

01 May 2026

Cardiff auction indicates latest demand trends influencing the market for leading Welsh painter Sir Kyffin Williams

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London and Paris trio team up for Orientalism show

01 May 2026

'At the Door of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus', c.1889-91, was painted by Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904), one of the leading Orientalist painters of Germany.

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Turner prints quest leads to latest exhibition at Mayfair art dealer Gerrish Fine Art

01 May 2026

The quest for Turner prints is a constant in the career of British art dealer Hilary Gerrish, who started trading in 1971.

Mary Magdalen fragment

Headless Mary Magdalen Old Master by Gentileschi takes more than five-times estimate at Vienna auction

30 April 2026

A 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.

Lord Harley’s Bloody Shouldered Arabian 

Newmarket museum acquires three large equine portraits via tax scheme

29 April 2026

Three 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.

Anderson & Garland auctioneer Fred Wyrley-Birch

Important collection of John Tunnard works brings demand in Newcastle

27 April 2026

Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland offered what was billed as “the most comprehensive private holding of works by John Tunnard (1900-71) ever to come to the market” this week.

Benjamin Constant's Odalisque

Flurry of exhibitions launched by art and antiques dealers for spring

24 April 2026

A round up of gallery shows launched this month.

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Royal Alice sets sail ‘on sailcloth’ as naïve paintings charm bidders

24 April 2026

Among the most intriguing naïve pictures sold recently was a simple and ostensibly unassuming painting of a ship offered at a recent Dominic Winter (22% buyer’s premium) auction.

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Key work by Joseph Southall secured for dealers' show just in the nick of time

24 April 2026

Next month’s exhibition on Joseph Southall (1861-1944), a joint effort by dealers Harry Moore-Gwyn and Sarah Colegrave, was six years in the making, yet the key piece came to the duo at nearly the last moment.

A photo of Horace Brown fishing

Get hooked in by Horace at the National Vintage Tackle Fair

24 April 2026

This splendid image depicts Horace Brown, a former president of the Piscatorial Society.

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh museum among buyers of previously unseen drawings by EH Shepard

23 April 2026

A small group of previously unseen preliminary drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator EH Shepard were offered by book dealer Peter Harrington.

View of Marlborough College by George Maton

Back to school: Dealer sells rediscovered early view of Marlborough College

22 April 2026

A rediscovered naïve painting showing Marlborough College in the years before the school was founded has been sold by a dealer to the college itself.

Ivon Hitchens landscape

Early Ivon Hitchens landscape tops estimate at Gloucestershire auction

20 April 2026

Among the Modern British art highlights sold in the English regions so far this spring was a striking landscape that made a significant sum for an early Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) at Kinghams' (26% buyer’s premium) latest British Art & Design sale.

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Prolific John Piper in demand in galleries and at auction

17 April 2026

Despite a recent work on paper auction record, the artist’s works remain relatively affordable according to specialists

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More celebrations for de Caullery

17 April 2026

There was plenty of interest at a sale held by Van Ham (27% buyer’s premium) in Cologne for a painting of a Medieval scene with jousting tournament.

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