Dealers

Book dealer Roger Treglown is the new president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association.

The last panoramic painting by William Powell Frith (1819-1909) in private hands has been sold – but will not vanish from the public eye just yet.

Caryl Tincknell of Violet Grey Decorative Gardens specialises in antique garden furniture and vintage garden antiques. She is among the exhibitors at the spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (April 9-14) in Battersea.

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

The story of Queen Anne, who ruled from 1702 to her death in 1714, is now much more widely known after the Oscar-winning portrayal by Olivia Colman in 'The Favourite'.

Obituaries for dealers Stephen Lunn and Chris Martin.

Hilary Batstone Antiques has recently moved into new premises after 22 years on west London’s Holbein Place.

A French Art Nouveau mahogany drop-front writing bureau, c.1925, is among the objects featured in a special exhibition at the spring edition of the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea.

A focus on two family businesses which source some of their stock from antiques and vintage fairs and markets in the UK.

Four prints hand-engraved by JMW Turner (1775-1851) for a rare and enigmatic series of landscapes feature at the next London Original Print Fair (LOPF) later this month.

Martin Lister of InVogue Antiques and Interiors specialises in furniture, collectors’ items and decorative pieces. He exhibits at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair at Westonbirt.

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

A Rosenthal porcelain model of the princess and the frog, c.1910, by Leo Rauth is among the objects on offer at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Mayfair exhibition reveals the sculptor and painter’s huge impact on artists.

A traditional art event keen to move with the times is pulling off a difficult double act.

A charity antiques fair in aid of a Kent hospice will run at the Skinners School in Tunbridge Wells on Sunday, April 28.

Book dealer Martin Woolf Orskey, who died in December, aged 93, was a familiar figure in the trade. Indeed, OF Snelling, in his book Rare Books and Rarer People, published in 1982, described him as the “prince of all the book runners – for this is what he was to begin with, and he would be the first to admit it".