Dealers

Dealers come in all shapes and forms, from small sole-traders to powerhouse galleries. Both play an integral role in the art and antiques market.

They often specialise in a given fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but there are also plenty of general dealers operating across different categories.

Coat of arms

Rediscovered Cardinal Wolsey coat of arms on display in London ahead of sale 

24 October 2025

An oak and polychrome carving of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's coat of arms has been rediscovered following research by St James’ art dealer Simon Dickinson.

Long Street Tetbury

Antiques dealer Drew Pritchard plans new Cotswold showroom

22 October 2025

Drew Pritchard is poised to join the Cotswold antiques hub of Tetbury.

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Penn in focus in Paris

20 October 2025

Images by American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009), who worked with Vogue for more than six decades and is credited with turning fashion photography into an art form, are among the highlights at the latest Paris Photo.

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Dickinson’s Victorian sketches in Jermyn Street gallery

20 October 2025

Original works for under £100? Dickinson offers just that in its latest show 'Sir Francis Grant: A Society Sketchbook'.

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Harrington gets into the travel business

20 October 2025

It’s a busy time for Peter Harrington. Hot on the heels of opening its Upper East Side gallery in New York, the rare book dealership is launching a loan exhibition on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein's monster and a new catalogue.

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Dealer's show focuses on the library’s changing role through time

20 October 2025

“Whoever made this thought of everything.”

William Scott exhibition

Jenna Burlingham Gallery hosts exhibition with works from William Scott’s estate

20 October 2025

Modern British art dealer Jenna Burlingham Gallery is hosting a selling exhibition from the estate of artist William Scott (1913-89).

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Aussie touring cricketers take new journey 141 years later

20 October 2025

This early original carte de visite-sized photograph depicting 11 members of the Australian cricket touring party to England 1884 was a stand-out result from an auction offering 500 items from one of the trade’s stalwart books dealers.

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Getting the bug in Northumberland

20 October 2025

A new shop, a recently-opened antiques centre and long-established fair turn the spotlight to the Northeast

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British Art Fair: Good business reported as Saatchi Gallery welcomes a 13,000 crowd

20 October 2025

Visitors turned out in droves for the most recent edition of the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery.

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Dealers' exhibition explores how tribal art fired the Modern masters

20 October 2025

Mayfair gallery Ordovas is hosting 'Dialogues', an exhibition exploring the influence of non-Western art on 20th and 21st century movements.

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Obituary: furniture dealer William Buckley (1946-2025)

18 October 2025

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of William "Bill" Buckley, a respected antiques dealer who built his reputation on integrity and an eye for quality furniture.

Johnny Van Haeften

High-priced sales racked up at Frieze Masters on first day of fair

16 October 2025

Frieze London and Frieze Masters opened with a strong attendance and a string of sales reported on the first day of the fairs in Regent’s Park.

Portrait ring

Hero to radicals: Dealer's exhibition marks John Wilkes tricentennial

13 October 2025

The 300th anniversary of the birth of the English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-97) on October 17 is being marked by a small exhibition featuring items from the personal collection and stock of dealer Timothy Millett.

Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park Racecourse

Kempton: So many dealers that ‘we even had to turn some away’

13 October 2025

Spaces at the recent Tuesday antiques market at the Kempton Park Racecourse were in high demand

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Quarterly event is central to the arms and militaria calendar

13 October 2025

A roster of around 115 dealers and long waiting list demonstrates the importance of the Birmingham fair

Tea Production Paintings

Museum purchases exceptional record of tea production from Asian art dealer

13 October 2025

Asian works of art specialist Alastair Gibson has recently completed the sale by private treaty of a set of Qianlong gouache scenes depicting tea cultivation and production.

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A trio of autumnal London art and antiques exhibitions

13 October 2025

To coincide with the V&A’s 'Marie Antoinette: Style' exhibition, portrait miniature specialist Emma Rutherford’s Limner Company is holding a ‘pop-up’ selling exhibition at Daniel Crouch Rare Books in Bury Street, Mayfair.

LAPADA

‘The crucial thing is for exhibitors to do well. They have to make sales’

13 October 2025

Any association fair has the unenviable task of attempting to be all things to all members, of attracting bigger name galleries while remaining accessible to sole operators, of maintaining the quality aesthetic that visitors expect while keeping stand costs affordable.

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ATG letters: Why the winter Olympia fair will be sorely missed

13 October 2025

How sad that the Olympia winter fair has been scrapped not only because of nearly clashing with the Berkeley Square fair but also costs and the ridiculous idea of the dealers of fabulous antiques having to mix their stands with all that Christmas stuff.

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