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The Fine Art Valuation degree course at Southampton Institute has lost almost half its teaching staff in the past year with the student intake dropping 60 per cent since 1998.

This bright red Dinky Holland Coachcraft streamlined van was one of only a few thousand, which in terms of Dinky’s prolific production rate is very few, to be made during their single year of production in 1935.

A NEW auctions group have unveiled plans to establish a UK network of salerooms, but say their ambitions remain strictly provincial.

The Italian art market is in shock at the arrest of one of its major players for the sale of fake works of art and other crimes.

A ROYAL remarriage will take place at Parham House in Sussex at the end of this month between King Philip IV of Spain and Elizabeth of France.

Period Styles by Anna Jackson with Morna Hinton, published by V&A Publications. ISBN l851774328 £25

WILLIAM Wood’s New Englands Prospect..., first published in London in 1634, was intended to “enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling Reader, or benefit the future Voyager”.