2024

Dating back to ancient Egypt and peaking in popularity in western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ‘singerie’ (French for ‘monkey trick’) is a genre of satirical art depicting fashionably attired monkeys, humorously imitating human behaviour.

With estimates from £300, here are six previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included the news that most antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks will be effectively banned.

Purnell was one of Great Britain’s few Olympic football players and one of a smaller pool of gold medal winners

At Gildings of Market Harborough, one little, or rather big bird took flight.

Pulling together the works of Gerald Laing (1936-2011) from 1962-2011, an exhibition at the Fine Art Society has a focus on the illusions of stardom and the fabled creation of muses.

Metal detecting finds often prove valuable both in terms of heritage and a healthy sum at auction.

A large prime period ‘California’ drawing by David Hockney, recently rediscovered by Chiswick Auctions, comes for sale this month.

The latest jobs news across the world of art and antiques.

Classic Antique Fairs is gearing up for its first event of the year, running from July 12-14 at the NEC Birmingham.

A watercolour by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) which was considered lost since the 1940s emerged at the latest fine art sale held at Olympia Auctions.

Two watercolours of the Portuguese colony of Macao by the British colonial artist William Prinsep (1794-1874) sold for record sums in Bonhams’ latest Travel & Exploration sale.

The production-made ticket is among other television and film auction highlights at Bonhams

Welsh auction house Rogers Jones is launching sales at Gregynog Hall in Powys. It will also open a new regional office for mid-Wales and the border regions at the venue.

A deck watch used in Robert Scott’s Terra Nova expedition found with the bodies of the crew has been sold by Bonhams

Robert Young Antiques launches summer show in Battersea.

The emergence of a rare portrait miniature of Robert Emmet, dated c.1803, at Gorringe’s in Lewes proved to be an exciting discovery.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Thomson Roddick Callan of Carlisle held a 270-lot sale of Antiquarian & Collectable Books and Related Items on June 6.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of redundancies taking place at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams.