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.

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Lowry’s Going to the Mill goes to auction 99 years after purchase

14 April 2025

An early work by LS Lowry (1887-1976) first sold to the literary editor of The Manchester Guardian for £10 in 1926 and kept by his family is now estimated at £700,000-£1m in a May 1-2 auction.

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Child prodigy Mendelssohn on song in saleroom

14 April 2025

String of portraits offered by south London auction house included sketch of the 12-year-old musical prodigy

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It was ‘art first, objects second’ for Knox at home

14 April 2025

If Knox is best known today for his work with Liberty & Co, in his own time on the Isle of Man he was better recognised as an art teacher and for his study of the local Celtic crosses and standing stones.

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Print purchaser was active in ‘Golden Age’ of collecting

14 April 2025

Swedish civil engineer and army officer with great understanding bought the best impressions available

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Keith Vaughan flies out the door in online sale

11 April 2025

Keith Vaughan, Claughton Pellew, Etienne Krier and Gerald Leslie Brockhurst prove popular in Abbott & Holder's latest edition of The List.

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Sienese gold ground paintings spotlighted in Christie’s private sales exhibition

11 April 2025

Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.

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Saint Bride shines as Louise Jopling returns to the limelight

09 April 2025

A striking picture by one of the most prominent but then forgotten British female artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries appeared at a Cheshire auction.

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London gallery offers Swedish gems in timed auction

08 April 2025

With many paintings offered for under £500, this sale of mid-century Swedish art is a decorative gift for those with a limited budget.

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ATG LETTER: Appeal for any Ahmed Parvez UK images

07 April 2025

I’m working on a monograph on the Pakistani artist Ahmed Parvez who lived and worked in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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‘Gem of a painting’ was created by key figure in Tempera Revival

07 April 2025

One of the highest prices for a figurative work by Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881-1972) came at an early spring sale at Plymouth Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium).

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Historical society adds to its US suffrage parade collection

07 April 2025

Archive on offer in Missouri saleroom includes items relating to a landmark 1913 procession for women

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London sale suggests works by US painter Horton are on the rise

07 April 2025

Swiss Alpine scene takes top spot in a family consignment as UK sale reveals considerable demand

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….and Cotswolds dealers in Chelsea

07 April 2025

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

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Pick of the Week: Jamaican views trump European

07 April 2025

The Fine Sale on March 26 at Cheffins in Cambridge included a group of pictures consigned by a descendant of the artist known as Philip Villamil of Jamaica (1814-78).

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Cotswolds event coming up in the Cotswolds…

07 April 2025

With the first CADA fair to be held in Chelsea receiving positive feedback (see story also in this edition), we now look ahead to a much more local event available for traders

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Brontë Parsonage buys Emily’s painting

07 April 2025

The Brontë Parsonage was the successful bidder at £32,000 (plus premium) when an original watercolour drawing by Emily Brontë came for sale in London.

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One of the first photographs of Mandalay Bay makes 20 times estimate

04 April 2025

Felice Beato (1832-1909) was one of the first photographers to capture East Asia, with this panorama appearing at Chiswick Auctions

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Lost portrait of Robert Burns appears at auction

02 April 2025

A hitherto lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has resurfaced at Wimbledon Auctions on March 31.

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Gallery heralds spring with floral exhibition

02 April 2025

Chrysanthemums and orchids will wilt and expire, but a painting can last for centuries.

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Virgil Finlay sci-fi illustration makes 16 times estimate

02 April 2025

A pen and ink signed illustration by American pulp fiction illustrator Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) made 16 times its estimate at Gildings on March 25.

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