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Robilant+Voena

Mayfair art gallery splits in two and other expansion and hires news across the art and antiques market

10 April 2026

The latest Movers & Shakers update includes news that art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena have launched two separate independent dealerships.

Miss Vernon

Rediscovered portraits by Romney and Raeburn emerge at auctions this spring

10 April 2026

Mark the diary for the appearance of two notable British portraits at auction in Paris and in Cambridge.

Chinese art sale

Chinese art collection from dealers and collectors comes to auction in London

09 April 2026

Dealers, collectors and Chinese art specialists Marcus and Debby Flacks will be offering 50 lots from their family collection at Christie’s in London next month.

Photography album

The Bodleian Libraries buys unseen works by photographic greats Lee Miller and Sir Cecil Beaton

09 April 2026

A ‘scrapbook’ of photographs put together by Roland Haupt, a darkroom assistant in the London office of Vogue magazine, has been sold to The Bodleian Libraries by dealer Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Elmwoods 900

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a Lalique necklace

09 April 2026

ATG Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

A 'parrot-sun' work on paper by Joan Miró

Miró works discovered in Nice studio head to auction

08 April 2026

Three previously unseen works on paper by Joan Miró (1893–1983) have been discovered in a studio in Nice and are set to make their auction debut in April.

C.I.V by Erskine Childers

Rare book fair returns to Dublin after three years

08 April 2026

A new book fair is being planned for the summer in Ireland.

Church murals

Art UK completes project to digitally record the UK's murals and street art

07 April 2026

The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.

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A 1950s robot is among five lots to watch

07 April 2026

With estimates from £500 here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

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Top stories this week including rent rises in St James’s

05 April 2026

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of dealers in St James’s warning that rent rises could lead to firms closing.

Strawberry Hill House

Strawberry Hill House launches latest fundraising appeal for Walpole-commissioned painting

02 April 2026

Strawberry Hill House, the London home created by the famed historian, collector and social commentator Horace Walpole (1717-97), is fundraising to buy a picture once in his collection.

Hamilton Square Auctioneers team

New auction houses, expansions and hires – the latest news from across the auctioneering world

02 April 2026

A new auction house in the Wirral and an Indian auction house expanding into the UK feature in this Movers & Shakers round up.

Still life

The Getty Museum buys two 17th century Dutch still life paintings

01 April 2026

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz (1597/98-1660).

Coalbrookdale benches

Plea to find Coalbrookdale benches and sundial stolen in Herefordshire

01 April 2026

The owner of a group of four antique Coalbrookdale benches and a decorative armillary sundial has made a plea to the antiques trade to look out for her stolen garden items.

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National Army Museum acquires Victorian study from Cecil Court dealer

31 March 2026

London dealer Darnley Fine Art of Cecil Court has sold a study of Henry Nelson O’Neil’s picture Eastward Ho! to The National Army Museum.

Treen

Somerset antiques dealer launches curated collection in London interiors shop

31 March 2026

Rebecca Christie-Miller Antiques has extended links with interiors shop Pentreath & Hall and will promote a curated collection of antiques in its Rugby Street showroom in Bloomsbury.

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George I longcase clock is among five lots to watch

30 March 2026

With estimates from £500 here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Martin Luther King’s Stride Toward Freedom

Inscribed book by Martin Luther King Jnr discovered at Oxfam sells at Bonhams’ auction

30 March 2026

An author-inscribed book by Martin Luther King Jnr donated to a small Oxfordshire Oxfam store has raised £2560 including premium at Bonhams

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Top stories this week including an insolvency auction at Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski

29 March 2026

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of longstanding London dealer Ossowski closing with a liquidation sale held on the premises

A 19th Century boxwood and ebony Dublin style chess set

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a Dublin style chess set

28 March 2026

ATG Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values