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One of the highlights of a sale of Old Master works held by Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) was a pastel self-portrait by the 18th century French portrait painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803).

Our selection of lots from 16 upcoming auctions

A collection of nine letters from Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne sold at Derbyshire saleroom Irita Marriott (24% buyer’s premium) had been passed down through the family of Vincent Seligman and his wife Barbara, who were lifelong friends of the author.

Extensive contents of Cumbrian castle take three days to sell in North Yorkshire auction

Organiser of Kent event makes plea for larger space as dealers struggle to fit into Victorian village hall

On Thursday, February 26, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $5163.99 / €4386.72 / £3825.18.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Auction house Sotheby’s has amended its buyer’s premium, raising its baseline rate to 28% for works selling for a hammer price of under £1.5m.

This pair of Aesthetic Movement ebonised and gilt salon chairs designed by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) sold for £56,000 at Gildings in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, on February 17.

A bonheur-du-jour secrétaire by celebrated cabinetmaker Roger Vandercruse Lacroix (1728-99) has been purchased by a museum in Kansas from French dealer Galerie Léage for a six-figure sum.

Emerging unrecognised from a London home, two ‘lost’ illustrations from a celebrated edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book will be offered at Roseberys next month.

One of the rarest of all British cigarette card sets sold for £8800 at Loddon Auctions on February 11. The Clowns and Circus Artistes series depicting a range of circus performers and the logo Taddy’s Clown Cigarettes is known through only half a dozen complete sets.

A Suffragette medal awarded to the chief nurse to Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) is to go on public display in the UK at a new exhibition after being bought at auction.

A newly discovered prime period work by Indian Modernist Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) comes for sale at Roland Auctions in New York state on March 28.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the opening of Bonhams' new premises at Steinway Hall in New York

With film technology yet to develop, Nelson’s last journey on the water was covered by numerous artists

Of all the many subjects painted by Harry Davis (1885-1970) during his long and celebrated tenure at the Royal Worcester factory, among the rarest and most desirable are polar bears in an Arctic landscape.