Art Market

End of year highlights included specialist collection amassed by couple who were both renowned experts

Two sales in London offered personal collection of the Hobarts including artists they had championed

Portrait of artist's wife stands out among works by more famous names in Salisbury saleroom

A group of seven mountainous landscapes by Hilda Marion Hechle (1886-1939) were the subject of a good deal of interest at a recent sale at Great Western Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow.

Pair of scarce oils by an artist more familiar as a watercolourist emerge at auction in Essex

A bust-length study, thought to be a self-portrait by Mary Beale (1633-99) from the early 1660s, sold above estimate at a recent sale at Parker Fine Art Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

Son of the famous John Atkinson Grimshaw under focus with two of his own works in the same style

More pieces appear from a collection that survived a couple of devastating blazes at the family home

Pictures by the Dutch artist Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821- 1909) are pretty abundant on the market but the considerable popularity of her characterful feline studies means they are invariably a valuable proposition.

Booming regional auction house points to experience and contacts as key to source high calibre works

Artists who had been achieving modest levels of success are catching up with the help of young collectors

A bronze by the French artist and sculptor Henri Gaudier- Brzeska (1891-1915), who died in the trenches aged just 23, was among the lots bringing demand at Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary art.

A cross-section of the work of Terence Cuneo (1907-96) featured as part of Sworders’ latest sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Stansted Mountfitchet.

Modern British painter depicted local life in west London including pub interiors and characters