Fine Art

Two previously lost works by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) will go on display in the new year after recently appearing at auction. Fontana has been described as the first female career artist in western Europe as her family relied on her income.

More pieces appear from a collection that survived a couple of devastating blazes at the family home

A fine drawing by French Romantic painter and draughtsman Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823) sold for €190,000 (£158,300) at L’Huillier & Associés (30% buyer’s premium inc tax).

Pictured here are two strong results recorded in French regional salerooms by members of the Ivoire Group of auction houses.

Bluerider ART was established in 2013 by Taipei-based IT entrepreneur Elsa Wang.

Pictures by the Dutch artist Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821- 1909) are pretty abundant on the market but the considerable popularity of her characterful feline studies means they are invariably a valuable proposition.

Among the opening sales at the FAB Paris fair at the newly restored Grand Palais was this Sicilian Baroque polychrome and gilt wood sculpture group of the Annunciation.

Dickinson Gallery has announced the rediscovery and unveiling of an unfinished portrait of Oliver Cromwell, painted by his favourite artist, Robert Walker, probably around 1649-55.

Booming regional auction house points to experience and contacts as key to source high calibre works

Oliver Wood is the photography books expert at Shapero Rare Books.