Fine Art

When Daniel Lambert, the famously rotund prison warden from Leicester, died in June 1809 at the Waggon and Horses Inn at Stamford, Lincolnshire, the title of ‘England’s fattest man’ transferred to a new contender.

Based in Lyndhurst in southern England, the late Victorian painter Arthur Batt (1846-1911) ploughed his artistic furrow painting dogs and donkeys either as portraits or in New Forest settings.

This image of Paramaribo on the banks of the Suriname River is one of the 18 lithographic views of the Dutch West Indies after Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-94).

Among the events debuting in London this summer was the one-day ‘fair’ Studiolo.

Image possibly showing co-creator of the ambrotype brings major bidding battle in the US

Works by two of the biggest names in art history put in a strong performance at the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.

Can you spot a fake from the real deal just from glancing at a photo?

This 18 x 15in (45 x 38cm) oil portrait of an English springer spaniel is by the great Orientalist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).

I much enjoyed Alex Capon’s informative auction report on Tirzah Garwood (Art Market, ATG No 2698).

The first of six new episodes of the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? airing on Monday, July 21 features a picture of a summer garden bought for £130 at Ardingly Antiques Fair.

Watercolour can be traced back to nobleman and antiquary who commissioned the illustrator Leonardi

British artist famed for The Monarch of the Glen also painted landscapes for his own pleasure

When William John Kennedy (1930-2021) and his wife were in the process of moving house in the mid-2000s, they found a box tucked away in the back of a closet.