Fine Art

An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.

A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.

Exhibition shows how painter’s shift from realism to Pre-Raphaelite fantasies paid off.

Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.

Grosvenor Prints celebrated its 40th anniversary in Covent Garden this month.

Musical manuscript and portrait on song in salerooms.

An occasional feature on mystery works the Art UK charity is seeking help to identify.

There is still time to buy art before the end of the year, and many galleries and dealerships host dedicated Christmas shows. Though prices range, here is a selection of works available across the UK for under £5000.

In the third multi-million-pound sale this year of a rediscovered Old Master at a provincial French auction house, a late Gothic panel offered at Cortot & Associés of Dijon brought a dramatic competition late last month.

Two recently restituted panels by Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo (c.1399-1482) lifted the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.

An autograph painting by German artist Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79) was one of the stand-out sales during London Art Week (LAW).

Consigned from a scholarly collector in New Zealand, a pair of relief-carved ivory panels was the among the highlights of Fonsie Mealy’s (22% buyer’s premium inc VAT) Castlecomer sale on November 26.

Polly Bielecka is director at sculpture gallery Pangolin London.

This portrait by Nicolas Régnier (1588-1657) of a richly attired lady possibly depicts Maria Farnese and appears to have been executed when the artist was in Modena where he painted several portraits of members of the d’Este court.

A Post-Impressionist painting of a horse-drawn hansom cab by Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was one of the headline lots at the Modern British art sales in London.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a John Piper church screen print.

Watercolour collection sold at auction represents a ‘who’s who’ of the city in the 1830s

An early watercolour by Isabel Codrington (1874-1943) depicts the Norse legend of the goddess Iduna and King Thiassi, who disguised himself as an eagle to kidnap her.