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.

Two traders at a vintage fair

‘The quality is wonderful… you can’t get this at a charity shop’

20 February 2026

Vintage clothes, accessories, furniture and more sell well at specialist fair in Saltaire

Vintage by the Sea

One door closes, another opens as shop shifts along

20 February 2026

This Easter Clare Smith will be relaunching her shop Vintage by the Sea in Saltburn, her home town on the north-east coast of Yorkshire.

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Eight highlights on offer at TEFAF Maastricht as fair gets ready to welcome new exhibitors

20 February 2026

Firms from the UK and as far away as USA, Mexico and Japan make debuts

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Collections of watercolours, Asian art and more showcased in dealer catalogues

19 February 2026

Recent dealer catalogues include a Japanese Edo period mask, a private collection of British watercolours and a first edition of Pride and Prejudice.

Bonheur-du-jour

Kansas museum buys rare 18th century writing desk by Parisian cabinetmaker

13 February 2026

A bonheur-du-jour secrétaire by celebrated cabinetmaker Roger Vandercruse Lacroix (1728-99) has been purchased by a museum in Kansas from French dealer Galerie Léage for a six-figure sum.

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Art Stable in Dorset hosts father and daughter art exhibition

13 February 2026

Art Stable in Dorset is holding a pair of simultaneous exhibitions on Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) and his daughter Charlotte.

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The Godfather letter among highlights of Rare Books LA

13 February 2026

Peter Harrington Rare Books of London brings a letter by Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, written to Francis Ford Coppola to Rare Books LA (February 21-22).

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Clinch a Klimt deal at just four figures

13 February 2026

Prints proved popular at this year’s London Art Fair (LAF), with a rare first reproduction of Gustav Klimt’s 'Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer' among the early highlights.

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Customer leaves it to last minute for rug purchase as LARTA celebrates a strong event

13 February 2026

Sales at this year’s edition of The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA) continued, literally, until the doors were shutting on the final day.

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New antiques dealers believe The Decorative Fair at Battersea ‘is the perfect mix’

13 February 2026

Each edition of The Decorative Fair brings new faces and this season Sheldrake Collection, founded by friends Alice Dickie and Chloe Shann, was one of them.

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Plenty to bite into at The Winter Decorative Fair in Battersea

13 February 2026

From huge sharks to chocolate pots, The Decorative Fair offered a tempting range to suit all tastes

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Madge pops down to Margate

13 February 2026

Visit from ‘Queen of Pop’ underlines just how much there is to see in Kent town including art and antiques

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Winter in Chester fuels warm feeling

13 February 2026

The February Cheshire Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair marks the event’s first winter outing at Chester Racecourse since 2023.

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Parks highlighted fight for civil rights

13 February 2026

Few photographers were as explicit about the purpose of their work as Gordon Parks (1912-2006), who in 1967 described the camera as his “choice of weapon” against racism, discrimination and poverty.

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Classic Antique Fairs doubles its dates with the addition of two fairs and another in the works

12 February 2026

Classic Antique Fairs has announced that it will launch events in Manchester and Perth this year.

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UK dealers witness “collectors’ confidence” at BRAFA

10 February 2026

UK exhibitors at the recent BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels were heartened by a strong list of sales.

TEFAF New York

UK supplies most new exhibitors to TEFAF New York

06 February 2026

TEFAF New York has announced the line-up at its next edition, which includes 10 newcomers among 88 exhibitors.

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First a Tudor portrait identified, now dealer follows up with a Canadian Highlander firmly named

06 February 2026

A portrait of a mystery soldier identified by a dealer has sold to a private collector.

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Chiswick's Old Cinema in step with fashion

06 February 2026

News of west London dealer collective holding a pop-up – plus lots more to visit in bustling Chiswick

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Obituary: dealer Gordon Gridley (1931-2026)

06 February 2026

Gordon’s working life began as an English and drama teacher but his love of antiques led him to begin dealing from stalls at Bermondsey and Portobello Road Markets in the 1960s, fitting his antique life around his teaching job while raising a young family.

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