Fine Art

At the time that the London-born artist George Chapman (1908-1993) first encountered the Rhondda Valley in 1953, he happened to be reading a series of books by US writer William Faulkner.

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Asian Art Week is led by one of the great imperial Qianlong period paintings in private hands – The Blue Goats by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione and the Chinese court artist Jin Tingbiao.

With estimates from £2000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.

London dealer Liss Llewellyn is currently offering an online sale of works from the estate of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd, many of which have never been seen in public.

A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) latest Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.

A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86).

A painting by Terence Cuneo depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath has sold for £60,000 at Sworders.

The East Anglian Traditional Art Centre highlights the talents of its local creatives in a show which opens this weekend.

A folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript will be offered at Christie’s in London on May 1.