Old Masters

An Old Master with a quirky but arresting subject drew hefty competition at Woolley & Wallis’ (27/26% buyer’s premium) latest picture sale.

A previously unrecorded drawing by the great Canaletto (1697-1768) has emerged for sale at Oxford auction house Mallams.

A Rembrandt portrait sold privately via Christie’s has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a museum in the UK can raise the £71.7m needed to keep it in the country.

Due to the nature of dealing in multiples, where direct price precedents are available, prints are sometimes regarded as the most predictable area of the art market.

A previously unrecorded portrait of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy has set a house record for Wimbledon Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A drawing from the early part of Thomas Gainsborough's (1727-88) career, dating from 1748 when the artist was 20 years old, sold to the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cheffins' latest fine art sale.

A work on paper by Italian Baroque artist Pier Francesco Mola (1612-66) was among the lots bringing demand at Christie’s sale of works from London dealer Stephen Ongpin.

A previously unrecorded painting by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) that “slipped through the net of all scholars” led the latest fine art sale held by Cambridge saleroom Cheffins (25% buyer’s premium).

A remarkable bronze cast of one of the most revered ancient sculptures, Laocoön and His Sons, drew fierce bidding at Sotheby’s on July 1 and led the latest round of ‘Classic art’ sales in London.

A well known portrait of the Duke of Wellington set an auction record for Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) at Christie’s latest Old Master evening sale.