Dealers

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

It’s nearly four months since the UK left the EU’s customs union and single market – a hard new reality for those Continental antiques dealers who regularly make the day trip from Belgium, Holland or France to stall out at fairs in southern England.

Art hub Cromwell Place has received approval from HMRC to operate an official Customs warehouse.

This wintry landscape, Route Enneigée avec maison, environs d’Éragny, was painted in 1885 by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).

Sunbury Antiques Market, better known simply as Kempton due to its Surrey racecourse location, last week became the first open-air fair to return after the most recent lockdown.

I am sad to report the passing of my dear friend Reginald ‘Reg’ Charles Remington (1931-2021) who died peacefully in hospital after a very short illness on Friday, April 2.

Dozens of London galleries are primed to open their doors to the public for the capital’s first physical mass art event in months.

Organiser Peter Binfield is hoping for fine weather and a good turnout of 100-plus dealers at the first of this year’s Vintage & Classic Arms Fairs at Kempton Park on Sunday, May 2.

David Malík of David Malík African Arts has a primary interest in the field of Contemporary African art and the long-standing art traditions of western and central Africa.

Mayfair art gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker has relocated to new premises on Clifford Street.

Wick Antiques has opened a new showroom in Lymington dedicated to maritime objects.

Dealer Lawrence Mitchell has repurposed his blog, themeissenman.com, to help collectors and salerooms distinguish between authentic and imitation pieces.

The start of May is likely to be a busy period with outside fairs and markets opening up around England and Wales after a protracted lockdown hibernation. Here is a snapshot of a few of them.

Having missed the ritual of perusing bookshelves in shops and fairs due to lockdown, Marc and Marcia Harrison of Netherlands gallery Harrison Hiett Rare Books have launched a digital ‘fully clickable’ catalogue to replicate the experience for their clients.

Exhibition tells the tale of an unconventional partnership opening up a conservative art scene

Chrissie and John Masters of The Design Gallery in Kent are offering this fine Art Deco sideboard by Hille at their showroom sale in Edenbridge from April 23-25.

John Alan Gair, who died suddenly on March 5, was a much-respected dealer in antique taxidermy, tribal artefacts and airship and Zeppelin memorabilia.

Tom Edwards is now managing director of London picture dealership Abbott and Holder following the retirement of co-director Philip Athill.