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This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the auction of a Roger Smith pocket watch.

Collaborative London galleries event signals renewed appreciation of this collecting field

A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.

With the National Portrait Gallery about to reopen, ATG takes a look at exhibition and auctions on the theme

Enthusiastic bidding emerged for two paintings included in an Old Masters sale at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

Asian Art in London will host its second summer event, this year taking place on June 28-July 1.

The art world in the Scottish capital and beyond is gearing up for a busy summer season

Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s art and antiques collection is coming up for sale in September.

Bamfords celebrated its move into its new premises in Spondon, Derbyshire, earlier this month with a party ahead of a busy week of auctions.

More than 70 lots of paintings, works on paper and antiques assembled by the well-known auctioneer and collector Paul Whitfield (1942- 2018) went under the hammer at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on May 17.

Art dealers across the UK are unveiling portrait exhibitions to mark the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) this month.

A sale of Old Masters, British & European Art at Chorley’s in Gloucestershire on June 27 includes this 17th century English School painting depicting the burning of London Bridge.

Stroud Auctions has completed its rebrand and relocation and is now called Harper Field Auctioneers & Valuers.

A previously unrecorded second version of Lavinia Fontana’s Mannerist portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus has sold in France for a record €1.25m (£1.1m).