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When Daniel Lambert, the famously rotund prison warden from Leicester, died in June 1809 at the Waggon and Horses Inn at Stamford, Lincolnshire, the title of ‘England’s fattest man’ transferred to a new contender.

Based in Lyndhurst in southern England, the late Victorian painter Arthur Batt (1846-1911) ploughed his artistic furrow painting dogs and donkeys either as portraits or in New Forest settings.

A fine example of French Art Nouveau furniture more than doubled its high estimate at Collective Hudson (30% buyer’s premium) in Kingston, New York.

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.

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

This image of Paramaribo on the banks of the Suriname River is one of the 18 lithographic views of the Dutch West Indies after Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-94).

The death of Gene Hoyle, dealer and well-known fair organiser in northwest England has led to the closure of the business he and his wife Zara managed and ran.

Zoe Durrant-Keegan is the face behind Little Vintage Lover Fair which launched in 2008 and now runs two or three vintage fairs a year in north Norfolk.

A Louis Comfort Tiffany pendant-necklace with matching ear clips in gold, star sapphire, moonstones, and enamel hammered for $200,000 (£148,000) at Doyle (28/27% buyer’s premium).

An enormous deceased estate in West Yorkshire has been providing Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (25% buyer’s premium) with a vast range of works to offload over the past two years.

Exhibition titled 'Fear Gives Wings to Courage' celebrates a century of art dealing on London thoroughfare

Among the events debuting in London this summer was the one-day ‘fair’ Studiolo.

A recent sale of Modern Art & Design at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford included a local collection of 21 pots by John Ward (1938-2023).

A large diptych depicting a profusion of colourful and curious figures attracted spectacular bidding at a recent sale held by Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium).

Image possibly showing co-creator of the ambrotype brings major bidding battle in the US