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Simon Phillips

Latest Movers & Shakers including new chair of Treasure House Fair

30 January 2025

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques

Jan Weenix painting

Dutch Old Master brings overseas bidding and triples estimate in Gloucestershire

30 January 2025

International interest came to Bourton-On-The-Water in Gloucestershire this month when a Dutch Old Master emerged from a family collection at Tayler & Fletcher (23.5% buyer’s premium).

Michael Baggott

Tributes paid to antiques expert Michael Baggott

29 January 2025

Tributes from across the world of art and antiques were paid to Flog It! star and silver antiques expert Michael Baggott who died following a stroke and heart attack.

Dudley Davidson collection

‘Unrivalled’ collection of saltglaze stonewares to be sold at BBR without reserve

29 January 2025

A very fine collection of saltglaze stonewares is coming for sale at BBR Auctions in Elsecar, North Yorkshire.

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Matchbox wreck truck towed away by determined bidder for hefty £11,000 hammer price

29 January 2025

Mass-produced toys need to have something special to rise above the norm when it comes to auction value. A Matchbox vehicle offered at Teesside saleroom Vectis certainly fitted that bill.

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Pick of the Week: Souvenir seized from George IV coronation feast

27 January 2025

Even when set against the standards of royal pageantry, the crowning of George IV at Westminster Abbey on July 19, 1821, was a lavish affair.

New event proposed to fill the hole left by London Art Week

27 January 2025

Plans are being drawn up for a marketing initiative designed to replace London Art Week (LAW), the yearly festival of traditional art that folded at the end of 2024.

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Striking set of oils captures the changing face of an 18th century country house

27 January 2025

A remarkable example of English country house portraiture, commissioned to record architectural changes to a Cheshire family seat in the mid-18th century, has sold for £150,000 (plus premium).

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Yale Centre for British Art buys rare Emma Soyer portrait from dealer

27 January 2025

Art dealer Dominic Sanchez-Cabello has sold a rare portrait by Emma Soyer (c.1810-42) to the Yale Center for British Art.

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Christopherson takes on BAMF chair role

27 January 2025

The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) has appointed Tom Christopherson as its new chairman.

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God bless America: Stateside decorators descend on Battersea Decorative Fair to seal string of deals

27 January 2025

Dealers reported a good start to sales at the Decorative Fair (January 21-26) in Battersea as ATG visited early on, with US decorators especially out in force.

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Saxon armoury splashes out for sitter with military connection

27 January 2025

London dealer William Thuillier has sold a portrait of Frederick Augustus I, the Elector of Saxony and Duke of Warsaw, to the armoury of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden.

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Welby porcelain collection up for sale at Woolley & Wallis

27 January 2025

On February 6 Woolley & Wallis is selling the Sir Bruno Welby collection of European porcelain. Estimates across 350 lots cover an affordable range from £50 to £2500 with the group as a whole expected to fetch around £100,000.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2678

27 January 2025

On Friday, January 24, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold price of: $2763.31 / €2641.19 / £2228.48

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Five questions with James Ward of London's JC Gallery

27 January 2025

Located in Mayfair, London, JC Gallery is the first European gallery to specialise in American Modernism.

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Bid Barometer: issue 2678

27 January 2025

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

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New dealers help Yorkshire fair thrive with help of local flavour

27 January 2025

The first visit of 2025 to Yorkshire for Cooper Events will be 'The Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair' from February 7-9.

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Laura Knight portrait of ‘favoured model’ tops estimate in Chichester

27 January 2025

Among the Modern British pictures generating bidding at the end of last year was a portrait by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) that was lifted to an above-estimate sum thanks to a combination of commercial factors.

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Scarce Singer painting emerges at auction

27 January 2025

Until the 1990s, Ilona Singer (1905-44) belonged to a forgotten generation of artists whose lives were cut short by the Nazis.

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Assembled with care: the sumptuous Zilkha collection comes to auction

27 January 2025

Sale of Kunstkammer items amassed by the founder of Mothercare will bring English and Continental silver and furniture in the princely tradition to the rostrum

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