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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Joanna Hardy discovers Bond Street jeweller Hennell's archive

05 February 2018

Jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy is usually found in glamorous locations.

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Sim creates fresh chapter on literary lives

05 February 2018

A trio of literary discoveries star at Sim Fine Art’s upcoming exhibition.

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Frock Me vintage fair kicks in at temporary Kensington venue

05 February 2018

The next three Frock Me vintage fashion fairs this year will be held at the Kensington Town Hall, instead of its usual venue, Chelsea Town Hall, which is being refurbished.

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The Howe-to antiques guide

05 February 2018

Christopher Howe has been dealing from the Pimlico Road area for the past 30 years but he likes to shake things up.

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Enter the Welsh dragon

05 February 2018

Dealer, art adviser and former auctioneer Simon Wingett is heading a project to create a new Welsh tourism centre including a sculpture park and gallery.

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5 Questions: Lloyd Rust of South East Antiques

05 February 2018

Lloyd Rust has run South East Antiques for 10 years. It is based in a 2500sq ft warehouse and trades mainly from eBay. He is also a heavy metal DJ and compere at the metal festival Bloodstock in his spare time. For the past 10 years he has also hosted a charity music festival in Chelmsford Essex.

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Dalmeny adds Shepton date

05 February 2018

Karen Dalmeny is a well-known face not only from antiques programmes Dickinson’s Real Deal and Secret Dealers on ITV, but also on the fairs circuit where she is a standholder.

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Obituary: Dorothy McEwan, the founder of The McEwan Gallery in Scotland

05 February 2018

Dorothy McEwan (1925-2017), who died in December, was the founder of The McEwan Gallery in Scotland. She was not your typical art dealer – if such a one exists.

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Rembrandt Bugatti model of a puma among early sales at Brussels art fair BRAFA

02 February 2018

The BRAFA art fair is holding its latest staging at the Tour & Taxis exhibition centre in Brussels with a number of the exhibitors making good sales at the private view.

The Fine Art Society

Dealer The Fine Art Society to leave London’s Bond Street after more than 140 years

02 February 2018

The Fine Art Society has decided to end its 142-year stint on London’s Bond Street in Mayfair and is searching for a new home.

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Chippendale Society acquires rare French-language edition of cabinet maker’s ‘Director’ from London bookseller

31 January 2018

London bookseller Thomas Heneage has sold a rare French-language edition of Thomas Chippendale’s (1718-79) seminal design book, ‘The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director,’ to The Chippendale Society.

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Mallett reunited with Dreweatts and Bloomsbury after sale by Stanley Gibbons

31 January 2018

Antiques dealership Mallett has been reunited with its former stablemates Dreweatts and Bloomsbury following a £100,000 purchase by Gurr Johns-owned Dreweatts.

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Tetbury antiques dealer convicted of burglary of local jeweller

30 January 2018

A Tetbury antiques dealer and his father have been convicted for a burglary of a jewellery shop in Gloucestershire.

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5 Questions: Adrian Pett of Darnley Fine Art

29 January 2018

Darnley Fine Art in west London specialises in paintings from the 16th-20th centuries and is a specialist in 19th century Orientalist painting of the Middle East and prints by David Roberts. The Milner Street gallery’s Adrian Pett weighs in on shifting trends – and ales.

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Events mark suffragette struggle to gain votes for women

29 January 2018

Author and dealer in memorabilia ready for busy year which is centenary of landmark act that gave women in the UK the vote for the first time

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Cotswolds dealer’s latest venture covers French Revolutionary period through to 1815

29 January 2018

A fragment of the flag believed to have flown from HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar came to national attention this month when it was knocked down for £240,000 at Sotheby’s.

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Gerald Brockhurst prints exhibition feature striking portraits of the famous and fictional

29 January 2018

Detailed and dark, the prints of Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978) offer striking portraits of both the famous and fictional from the first half of the 20th century.

ATG letter: You say lane, we say laine

29 January 2018

MADAM – You may call me a pedant but in Brighton there is no such place as the North Lanes.

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Mitchell hits the Alpine peaks for the 17th time

29 January 2018

John Mitchell Fine Art’s 17th 'Peaks & Glaciers' exhibition takes place at its Mayfair space until April 19.

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Festival feeling in Petersfield

29 January 2018

The next Petersfield Antiques Fair runs from February 2-4 hosting 39 dealers at the market town’s Festival Hall.

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