2026

The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum’s fundraising campaign raised enough to buy a letter fragment from Mary Anning (1799-1847) offered at a Bonhams auction.

Indian online-only auction house AstaGuru has expanded into the UK and set up home in west London.

A group of Venetian scenes were among the lots bringing interest at the latest Fine, Decorative Arts & Design sale at Gloucestershire saleroom Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium).

Part of the private art collection of Michael Rand (1929-2025), the art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine, will be offered at Sworders.

In the world of chess, few names command as much quiet authority as Lothar Schmid.

Penlee House Gallery & Museum in Cornwall has purchased an important painting by Walter Langley (1852-1922) after successfully raising the £65,000 needed to acquire it from a local authority in Surrey.

The reopening of Benton End as a museum and garden later this year has sparked a wave of Cedric Morris-related events.

The auction of a rare and unpublished drawing by Hans Baldung (c.1484-1545) that was due to take place in Paris on March 23 has been postponed after the work was declared a National Treasure by the French government.

An extensive 18th century archive relating to James Stirling (1692-1770) has been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the funds to keep it in the UK.

With estimates from £50, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

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The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum has launched a fundraising campaign in the hope it can secure a letter fragment written by the English fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847). It is being offered at a Bonhams auction this month.

Auction house Propstore is calling film fans and collectors to its three-day Entertainment Memorabilia sale.

Two items of diamond jewellery achieved record sums for UK salerooms Duke’s and Elmwoods this week.

The second edition of the London fair Studiolo has been announced.

Longstanding Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski is thought to have closed with a liquidation auction held on the premises.

The latest Movers & Shakers from around the world of art and antiques

Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses, the largest of its kind in the world, is to have a new home at the National Army Museum in west London.

A dramatic competition came for a Mannerist battle scene that emerged at Wimbledon Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) two-day sale on March 2-3.