Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

Portraits boosted takings at Mallams’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest picture sale in Oxford.

Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, has been a favourite subject in art since ancient times.

Woman excluded from the guild of artists was nevertheless highly rated by kings and emperor

The Welsh Sale at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on April 17 includes a portrait of Dylan Thomas painted just two months before he died,

This elaborate still-life featuring a vase containing a rich variety of flowers including roses, peonies and tulips, is a work by Maria van Oosterwyck (1630-93), a 17th century Dutch golden age female artist who specialised in still-life subjects.

The city of Liverpool holds a special place in the oeuvre of John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93).

This rediscovered portrait depicts a youthful-looking William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

Traditional high-society portrait by Sir Oswald Birley finds modern-day auction fans including an overseas buyer

Collection in Cheltenham auction is latest in a series of valuable consignments with Ford family distinguished provenance

One of the attractions of the March 24-26 sale at Siebers in Stuttgart is a collection of 18 paintings by 19th century Polish artists who primarily belonged to the Munich school. The works were the property of a family of textile merchants, who moved from south Germany to Lodz, south west of Warsaw, in the 1930s.

In June 1925, only six months before his death, the Swiss painter Felix Vallotton and his wife visited the Périgord for the first time, which he declared to be “the most beautiful countryside on earth”.

Quartet of West Country works featured in the same sale as our £105,000 cover star

The highest auction price for 12 years for Beryl Cook (1926-2008) was posted at David Lay’s recent fine art sale.

With ski season on ice for so many, exhibitions offering snowy scenes could fill in

Typical Charles Cooper Henderson coach scene rolls into Cheffins' saleroom

This hitherto unrecorded work by the Jewish painter Morris Goldstein (1892-1965) is offered by the Nonesuch Gallery, priced at £5000.

Two paintings by the French artist Albert Marquet (1875-1947) performed successfully at auctions in two different French cities in the space of 24 hours.

In the spring of 1826, artist Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) arrived in Milan with his companion and patron Charles Rivet.