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Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Doyle is offering a selection of Old Master and 19th century paintings as the opening 78 lots of its January 21 sale of English and Continental Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts and Old Masters.

MADAM – Thank you to ATG for keeping us up to date with all the goings on in the antique, art and book world in 2020 while this dreadful virus has curtailed all our visits to antique fairs, book fairs etc.

MADAM – With regard to the mention of Gloria Cardew in the Lyon & Turnbull sale (Books and Works on Paper, ATG No 2474).

These Jacobite roundels carry the portraits of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-88) and his brother Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807).

The sale at W&H Peacock (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Bedford on January 1 included, estimated at £200-300, this pair of mahogany waterfall-style bookcases.

A selection of 18 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

This recently discovered grisaille painting of Adam and Eve by the Florentine Mannerist artist Jacopo Carucci (1494-1557), known as Pontormo, is the centrepiece of a new exhibition of monochromatic works at New York gallery Nicholas Hall.

Dealers, collectors and curators traditionally head to New York and Florida in January and February for a wide array of events.

Life model depicted by Freud, Auerbach and even Lennon amassed her own art collection

Two of the best-selling literary lots in a New York sale were copies of Jane Austen novels.

Lockdown restrictions mean the normal January and February international focus on US auctions and dealer events will be rather different in 2021, but plenty of opportunities are still on offer to buy art and antiques

The collection of Hester Diamond, a New York art dealer, interior designer and art collector, is one of the designated single-owner offerings in Sotheby’s Masters Week series.

A selection of period and vintage jewellery lots for sale in January, February and March.

Two auctions devoted to drawings and works on paper, one single-owner, one mixed-owner, form part of Sotheby’s Master Week sales, both staged on January 27.

Angela Short (previously Linstead), the well-known Tunbridge Wells dealer, passed away peacefully on December 5 aged 89.

An auctioneer has put his own name above the door after working for more than three decades in the same Winchester saleroom.

On Friday, January 15, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1853.85 / €1530.25 / £1357.57

Mounted in an autograph book that was compiled from 1937 onwards by Miss Joyce Cartmell, a sketch of Christopher Robin was a highlight of a Yorkshire sale.