Old Masters

Highlights of London Art Week this winter include specialist exhibitions focusing on single artists

The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction earlier this year.

Lot number four, estimated at €8000-10,000, achieved the most spectacular result at Van Ham’s (27% buyer’s premium) sale of paintings on November 14 in Cologne.

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.

Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait

Christie’s will offer a further 90 Rembrandt prints from the collection of the late Sam Josefowitz next month.

A large and historic view of Bilbao in Spain was among the lots bringing competition at a recent sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) in Exeter.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included the results of an 18-month research project into a rare 17th century painting of black and white women.

Following an 18-month conservation and research project at the Yale Center for British Art, an enigmatic double portrait that drew a dramatic competition at auction in 2021 is going on display at its new permanent home of Compton Verney.

The latest sale at Aces Gallery in Stamford, Connecticut was topped by the multi-estimate performance of a rediscovered allegorical painting by Venetian artist Paris Bordone (c.1500-71).

The 19th edition of Master Drawings New York is expected to feature more than 20 exhibitors from New York, London, Paris, Madrid and Brussels