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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.

A scarce Louis Vuitton wardrobe steamer trunk dating from the 1920s or earlier sold for £130,000 hammer (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at John Nicholson’s on June 11.

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

From dealers and auction houses, here is the latest round up of people moves.

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

Serendipity has it that two Regency pollard oak and ebony inlaid desks attributed to George Bullock (c.1762-1818) come for sale on the same day this week.

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

The Haughton International Seminar returns this year with a focus on invention and imitation.

The first oil painting ever exhibited by JMW Turner (1775-1851) in his lifetime will be offered at Sotheby’s this summer.

A London art dealer has been jailed for failing to report art sales to a sanctioned individual believed to be a terrorist financier.

With estimates from £150, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week