Fine Art

From 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' to 'The Last Duel', films nearly always depict the Middle Ages as dark, dingy and beset by bad weather.

Dealer Peter Harrison has sold a recently reidentified portrait by 17th century painter Mary Beale (1633-99) to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Christina Jansen is managing director of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, which was established in 1842. She started in the applied arts department before working her way up to run the gallery in 2016. On show at the gallery now are several Contemporary exhibitions running until December 23 including The Miniaturist Gallery (more below) and a selection of pictures by Victoria Crowe.

Collection from unnamed vendor supplies some of the highest prices in a sale at the Drouot centre

Some notable auction action has been generated by the artist Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) over the last few months.

It is often said that the mark of a good illustrator is that their work is instantly recognisable.

An album of watercolour studies of Ottoman ceramics that connects two of the British collectors of the early 20th century raced away from its estimate at Dominic Winter in Gloucestershire.

Pictured here are two paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) appearing on the French auction scene this season within the space of a month - one sold, the other upcoming.

Although this small oil sketch that surfaced at Oxio Paris (24% buyer’s premium) in Saint-Ouen on November 19 was catalogued as by ‘Howard Hancock’, the signature is clearly that of David Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943).

Cast-iron provenances and first appearances on the market combine to boost value in a Cornish saleroom

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

'Landscape and Figures' by Archibald McGlashan (1888-1980) is among the highlights at Ottocento’s Modern British art exhibition.

While pictures of young female sitters are not unusual in the oeuvre of George Clausen (1852-1944), ones with mythological or allegorical subjects are distinctly rarer.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a Henry Moore alabaster head at Sotheby’s.

Little-known artist tutored by Cedric Morris comes under the spotlight thanks to her portrait of him

Sculpture dealer Willoughby Gerrish is using London Art Week (LAW) as a chance to launch another branch of his business.