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Largest group of artist’s works to be offered was consigned to Essex auction house by daughter.

A portrait in profile of Winifred Knights (1899-1947) by her husband and fellow artist Thomas Monnington (1902-76) is among the offerings at a major double exhibition of drawing in London this month.

I’m writing in the hope that readers might give me a view on whether a recent experience of mine is or is not common practice among regional auction houses.

Collection gathered in by a local farmer comes to auction in North Yorkshire

Four auction records were set in the first 90 minutes of a recent four-day comics and comic art auction conducted by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium).

The Open Art Fair is set to return next spring. Part owned by BADA (British Antique Dealers’ Association), it is scheduled to run in a purpose-built marquee in Duke of York Square, Chelsea, from April 19-23.

Bonhams conducts a sale in New York on October 6 titled Wonders in Wallpaper.

Archibald Knox’s work for Liberty & Co often drew on the rich cultural heritage of his native Isle of Man.

The sale at Lawrences of Crewkerne on October 12 includes a collection of studio ceramics formed by Lord and Lady Peyton of Yeovil.

This ‘microgauze’ woven linen and steel wall hanging by pioneering British weaver Peter Collingwood (1922- 2008) comes for sale courtesy of Prue Leith.

HMS Foudroyant, which served as Nelson’s flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron, had been touring English seaside resorts as an attraction when it was wrecked off Blackpool Sands on June 16, 1897.

Among the highlights of the latest Important Chinese Art sale at Sotheby’s New York was this rare porcelain meiping from the Yongzheng or early Qianlong period.

A cast of Hamo Thornycroft’s Teucer, classic of the New Sculpture movement, sold for £20,000 (plus 21% buyer’s premium) at JS Auctions in Banbury on September 23.

An exceptionally early album of calotype photographs sold for £68,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Lyon & Turnbull on September 28.