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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Serhat Ahmet’s summer ceramics show

23 June 2025

The summer exhibition from European porcelain specialist Serhat Ahmet runs at his Cecil Court, London, gallery until June 28.

Victor Pasmore representation

23 June 2025

Hazlitt Holland Hibbert has announced that it will represent the estate of Modern British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-88) along with Frankie Rossi Art (both based in Bury Street, St James’s).

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Our new show on Broadway

23 June 2025

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds

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FAB Paris poised to kick off autumn season with new dates and host of special events

20 June 2025

Back with a new spot in the calendar, highlights of FAB Paris include a cross-collecting exhibition between six dealerships and a showcase of 18th century decorative arts.

Patrick Mestdagh

CINOA issues rallying cry for the art trade to unite

19 June 2025

The new president of CINOA has issued a call for unity across the cultural sector in response to “increasingly restrictive legislation affecting the global art and antiques trade”.

Oghenochuko Ojiri

‘Keep calm’ say experts as dealer Ojiri goes to jail

16 June 2025

The art and antiques trade has been urged to keep up with regulations but “not to panic” after the imprisonment of a dealer for violating anti-money laundering legislation.

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‘We meet great people and we have a great team around us’

16 June 2025

The latest family generation to run Galerie Steinitz talks to ATG about the business and a landmark auction

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Two centuries of British works take over two whole floors of Ongpin’s gallery

16 June 2025

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art is hosting a much-anticipated exhibition for the summer: 'Two Centuries of British Drawings, Watercolours and Oil Sketches'. The show boasts over 60 works, including JMW Turner and Johann Heinrich Füssli.

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Camden Passage pic plea

16 June 2025

I hope I can raise awareness to start a fundraising campaign to restore a photo on the wall in the Camden Passage area of Islington.

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Good news for fleamarket visitors devoted to finding bargains

16 June 2025

Fleamarkets offer an endless variety of stock to draw in buyers and two ‘giants’ are coming up soon, one in Somerset, the other in London.

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Obituary: Watercolours dealer Nicholas Salvin Bowlby (1949-2025)

16 June 2025

Nicholas Bowlby was a dealer of the old school, a character of great warmth and wit, naturally inquisitive with an eclectic taste that ran from early watercolours to contemporary abstracts.

Geoffrey Munn

Antiques Roadshow expert Geoffrey Munn loans jewellery collection to V&A

13 June 2025

Jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn has placed his personal collection of historical jewels on permanent loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

William Dobson self portrait

Dealer brokers sale of Dobson self-portrait to two London museums

13 June 2025

A rare self-portrait by William Dobson (1611-46) has been jointly acquired by Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in a £2.37m private treaty sale brokered by dealer Hazlitt.

Eliot portrait on display in the museum

George Eliot portrait discovered at regional auction eight years ago comes to hometown museum  

12 June 2025

A rediscovered portrait of author George Eliot will go on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery.

Château de Versailles.

Prison terms and fines handed down in Versailles fake furniture scandal

11 June 2025

Two furniture experts have been fined and sentenced following a long-running French fake furniture scandal.

King Charles III

Royal visit boosts antiques dealers at Spitalfields Market 

11 June 2025

King Charles III visited the antiques and vintage dealers of Old Spitalfields Market on Thursday, June 5 as part of a trip to east London.

John Minton portrait

Harry Moore-Gwyn show pays tribute to ‘Artists of Fame and Promise’

11 June 2025

London dealer Harry Moore-Gwyn’s summer exhibition features 65 works by 20th century artists both well known and lesser known names.

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven

Swiss-based collection gives worldwide access to Chinese map of ‘all under Heaven’

09 June 2025

One of only three known surviving copies of a rare 1644 century Chinese woodblock map has been bought by The Sunderland Collection.

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Dealer seeking a mooring in Cornwall

09 June 2025

Seafaring man-turned dealer in nauticalia, Robin Langford is searching for reasonably priced shop premises near St Ives where he deals online as Clipper Maritime.

ATG letter: Winter Olympia dealers would face a free-for-all on the ground floor

09 June 2025

Following the news that Clarion Events is planning to integrate the antiques fair with the Christmas fair at Olympia (News, ATG No 2695) I have to agree with the dealers’ concerns as expressed in your article.

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