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Thomas Rowlandson caricature

Private collection of Thomas Rowlandson caricatures comes to market at London dealer's exhibition

27 February 2025

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art is currently hosting an exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) until March 7.

Alexander Nasmyth portrait

Former BBC Antiques Roadshow expert’s collection heads to auction

27 February 2025

A collection of works owned by the late BBC Antiques Roadshow expert and former director at Christie’s, Hugo Morley-Fletcher (1940-2022), has been consigned to Roseberys.

Abel Grimmer painting

Rediscovered Old Master painting heads to Salisbury auction

26 February 2025

A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis.

Codd bottle

Victorian mineral water bottle makes a very refreshing £19,000 price at Warwick saleroom

26 February 2025

This rare English mineral water bottle sold for £19,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Griffin’s Auctioneers in Warwick on February 25.

Edward Elgar sketches

British Library acquires ‘missing’ pages of Elgar’s musical sketchbook through Christie’s

26 February 2025

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

2684AB Reeman Dansie Charlie Letter 1

Letter outlines Bonnie Prince Charlie plea for support at crucial time in the 1745 Jacobite rising

25 February 2025

An autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie was among a group of Jacobite relics discovered among a wide array of antiques during a Georgian townhouse clearance.

Rural Scenes

Photograph archive offers snapshot of early 20th century Shanghai

25 February 2025

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.