Dealers

MADAM – Re: ‘Fair loses appeal over early closure’, front page, ATG No 2484.

Spotlight on two London art businesses launched despite the challenges of lockdown

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

MADAM – I run an online antiques business. I have now found that since January 1, 2021, when I export to the EU, my customers are having to pay additional import duties of between 18-25% on each order.

Spring is here (ignore the weather) and fairs and markets are suitably blooming again with the prospect of getting back to business.

Alex Stevens began selling collectables aged 14, going on to specialise in vintage wristwatches. He launched Alex Stevens Vintage in late 2020.

This rediscovered portrait depicts a youthful-looking William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

British Studio Ceramic is Messums Wiltshire’s third annual show.

Angela Whittle is one of the 30-plus group who take part in salvage supremo Drew Pritchard’s regular virtual Salvage Sundays.

Former London fine art dealer Ian Godfrey Appleby sadly died on January 24, in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands at the age of 92, after complications following breaking his hip.

Police are investigating the provenance of a collection of Japanese ivories in connection with a high-value burglary in Surrey.

Fair organisers are now planning for the spring and summer as the roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions in England allows outdoor events to be held from April.

West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is targeting a late spring return following the government announcement that hospitality venues would be permitted to reopen indoors as part of ‘stage three’ of its timetable for easing Covid-19 restrictions in England.

Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.

Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks in Kensington Church Street has been transformed into 18th century Toledo for a bedroom farce.

Adrian Gilmour, co-owner of the Hungerford Arcade, is thrilled at news that non-essential retail can reopen in April.

Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’

Without the usual January influx of collectors, curators and dealers to the Big Apple, two significant art-buying dealer events decided to go virtual. For some exhibitors, the results were better than expected.