Fine Art

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.

The demand for a well-documented genre painting by the 17th century Flemish artist Jan Steen surprised the auctioneers at Döbritz (26% buyer’s premium) in Frankfurt.

A spring sale at Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer (25% buyer’s premium) in Basel was devoted to works of art from an impressive, wide-ranging Swiss collection.

This terracotta sculpture, 'The Triumph of Silenus', is among the highlights at Willoughby Gerrish’s exhibition 'Alfred Drury and the New Sculpture Movement'.

A recently discovered floral still-life by Jan Davidsz de Heem sold for €2.8m.

Roger Godchaux is regarded as one of the most accomplished French animalier sculptors of the first half of the 20th century.

Spotlight on specialist traders, a fresh online offering, the creation of new styles and revitalising antique items

Sketches at the Time of the Commencement of British Intercourse with Japan, an album containing 76 watercolours and drawings and 126 wood engravings from the last days of the Edo period, sold for £16,000 at Dominic Winter (22% buyer’s premium).

Local landscapes by brother of the prominent Modern British artist Paul are now witnessing growing demand