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.

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Sixty dealers standing at Petworth fair

25 April 2025

Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens for its 11th edition on May 16 in the grounds of the National Trust’s Petworth House & Park.

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Dealer offers fresh works from estate of married artists Bliss and Dodd

25 April 2025

London dealer Liss Llewellyn is currently offering an online sale of works from the estate of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd, many of which have never been seen in public.

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London dealer David Aaron makes debut at TEFAF New York

24 April 2025

The 10th edition of TEFAF New York returns between May 9-13. One London dealer is hoping to make a splash with its first showing

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Dealer Daniel Katz sells Spanish Old Master to Getty Museum

23 April 2025

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86).

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Colourful designer and artist John Sutcliffe celebrated at dealer's show

21 April 2025

Abbott and Holder is hosting an exhibition from April 24-May 10 celebrating the work of John Sutcliffe, one of the great decorative painters and colour experts of his generation.

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Sussex brocante joins Kent event on organiser’s roster

21 April 2025

Julia Prentice of Cherish Vintage is launching her Midhurst Brocante on Saturday, May 3, at the Old Library in the West Sussex town.

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Dealers Peppiatt and Rutherford team up for the first time

21 April 2025

Guy Peppiatt has produced a new catalogue which is a combined effort with Emma Rutherford: the first time the two dealers have collaborated in this way, though they have worked together in the past.

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Inside and out: street market also runs in the civic centre

21 April 2025

Who doesn’t love an antiques street market? Plenty of buzz and lots to buy makes these a winning formula, so much so that they sometimes expand.

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Former footwear designer stepped into fairs world

21 April 2025

Last week in this column we mentioned dealer Gerard Coles who told us that among the fairs and events that he exhibits at, the Spotlight Market in Hackney “keeps me young”.

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Latest selection from London bookseller focuses on the digital and social landscape

21 April 2025

Books dealership Peter Harrington’s latest catalogue explores how technology has shaped, controlled, and empowered the voiceless, while fuelling the flow of information and culture.

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Dealer sells ‘feminist’ medieval manuscript to Getty Museum

17 April 2025

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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East Anglian gallery celebrates the artists of Suffolk

17 April 2025

The East Anglian Traditional Art Centre highlights the talents of its local creatives in a show which opens this weekend.

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IACF takes on Builth Wells event

14 April 2025

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

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Spring in the step of exhibitors at the latest Classic Antique Fairs edition

14 April 2025

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

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Fairs news in brief: events in Essex and Newcastle

14 April 2025

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

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The Olympia exhibition that led to a dealing career

14 April 2025

When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.

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Exhibitors happy to travel to Enys House

14 April 2025

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

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Later spot for Petersfield this month as first fair under Ben Cooper control comes up

14 April 2025

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

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Keith Vaughan flies out the door in online sale

11 April 2025

Keith Vaughan, Claughton Pellew, Etienne Krier and Gerald Leslie Brockhurst prove popular in Abbott & Holder's latest edition of The List.

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Gallery celebrates iconic decorative painter

09 April 2025

John Sutcliffe championed the art of restoration using paint, based on his understanding of architectural history and his skill in wielding a brush.

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