Fine Art

Rather than the rich and famous it was this photograph of three haggard workers that caught the eye in a Cincinnati saleroom.

Looking more like a sale brochure when unopened, the embossed front cover shown below in fact conceals a rare 1906 stereoscopic viewer.

Like his father of the same name, Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr (1813-90) began his career in Newcastle but he moved to London in 1846.

Anyone sitting through a slideshow of images from an extraordinary photograph collection of Indian, south-east Asian, and Middle Eastern subjects sold in a US auction could be there for a long time.

Previously unrecorded view by the Italian scenic painter now joins six others of Naples already known

An early 17th century pen and ink drawing of Euterpe, the muse of lyrical music, caused the biggest surprise at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium).

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite

A canvas by the Romantic painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) went for many times the guide at Kinsky (28% buyer’s premium) in Vienna.

Brian Saunders of Saunders Fine Art, Solihull, has passed away after a long battle with cancer.

In the oeuvre of ‘primitive’ painter Bryan Pearce (1929-2006), still-lifes are significantly rarer than his marine and harbour scenes.

Blackadder, Ramshaw and Manz under the spotlight at single Edinburgh gallery’s trio of exhibitions

In the 1920s, the German painter Albert Birkle (1900-86) combined 'Neue Sachlichkeit' (New Objectivity) with his version of magic realism to produce sometimes disturbing results.

Album of watercolours by mysterious but talented Indian artist takes £90,000 at Scottish saleroom

Olympia Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) reported some significant overseas interest at its latest Fine Paintings, Works on Paper & Sculpture auction with almost a third of buyers from outside the UK.

International collectors invested considerable sums in the Expressionist paintings on offer at German sales over the last few weeks.

The latest Old Master auctions in London posted the highest total for a series in this category in the capital since 2017.