Obituaries

The dealer in art and vintage photography Pierre Spake has died at the age of 72. For the past year he had been undergoing treatment for cancer.

Born Allan Garway Atkins, in Northern Ireland, Garry Atkins (1938-2026) – the name by which he became known and loved throughout the ceramics world – began his working life as an insurance broker, building collections of stamps and coins along the way.

Simon Spero’s childhood was spent in the Home Counties.

Born in 1945 at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Anthony’s upbringing was extremely humble.

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

For holidaymakers who headed to Kent this summer, if you passed by Whitstable you may have seen a bench dedicated to the late Cindy Mainwaring Mack, the antiques fair doyenne.

It is with great sadness John Pye Auctions has announced that John Pye passed away on the evening of Monday, August 10, surrounded by his whole family, at the grand age of 95.

Renowned coin expert and long-standing contributor to Antiques Trade Gazette, Richard Falkiner, has died at the age of 90.

Renowned coin expert and long-standing contributor to Antiques Trade Gazette, Richard Falkiner, has died at the age of 90.

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of long-standing member of the Lyon & Turnbull family Theo Burrell after a four-year battle with an aggressive brain tumour. She died peacefully on Wednesday, July 8, surrounded by her family.

Theo Burrell died peacefully in earlier this month after a four-year battle with an aggressive brain tumour. Here four of colleagues at Lyon & Turnbull share their memories of the ceramics specialist

In Matthew, the trade has lost a great spinner of yarns, his accounts of deals and encounters, of meals with the gypsies in Romania and bar room brawls have left many spellbound.

Robert Sterling Brunk passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2026, at age 84.

It is with great sadness that the many friends and colleagues of Dr Ittai Gradel heard of his death from cancer on April 28 aged just 61.

My first encounter with Ittai was a phone call about an item I had for sale.

Peter Coulborn, a long-time figure in the British antiques trade, died peacefully on January 29, aged 86.

We regret to announce Richard (‘Ricardo’) Penman passed away on Monday, April 13, after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.

I first met Ronald Phillips in the late 1960s in the Warwick Arms.

Mark Dalrymple, the distinguished fine art loss adjuster whose expertise led to the recovery of numerous stolen and missing works of art, died on March 20 aged 72.