Dealers' Diary

A roster of around 115 dealers and long waiting list demonstrates the importance of the Birmingham fair

To coincide with the V&A’s 'Marie Antoinette: Style' exhibition, portrait miniature specialist Emma Rutherford’s Limner Company is holding a ‘pop-up’ selling exhibition at Daniel Crouch Rare Books in Bury Street, Mayfair.

Any association fair has the unenviable task of attempting to be all things to all members, of attracting bigger name galleries while remaining accessible to sole operators, of maintaining the quality aesthetic that visitors expect while keeping stand costs affordable.

When the Folk Art dealer Robert Young first met Tif Hunter over 30 years ago, he was instantly drawn to the photographer’s work.

This particularly rare American issue of the 1939 Michelin Guide was specially commissioned by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in Washington D.C. during the Second World War.

Good sales and happy exhibitors as France’s showpiece fair moves from November to mid-September

Having missed its usual August event while the venue was refurbished, The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair returns for the second time this year to Westonbirt School.

Wedding gift for Catherine of Aragon stands out as one of the highlights at the latest Frieze Masters

At the 23rd edition of the Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam (TAF), one highlight is this Angolan take on a Regency sabre-leg chair, carved c.1850 and priced at £2200 with Adam Prout.

Kensington Church Street dealership Reindeer Antiques is hosting an exhibition and book launch for cartoonist Annie Tempest (b.1959).

Meeting as neighbours at TEFAF Maastricht, two sculpture dealers have come together to hold an exhibition in London.

The long-running Chester Fair is now the Cheshire Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, a name chosen to underline its position as the only major antiques fair in the county.

Former LAPADA member, furniture dealer Nimbus Antiques in north Derbyshire, is closing and plans a retirement auction at local saleroom Bamfords.

Sarah Harris, proprieter of Breckland Antiques, is a specialist in all aspects of the British Arts & Crafts movement. She will be standing at the Northern Antiques Fair in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, held from October 9-12 (previewed last week in ATG No 2711).

Dominic Sanchez-Cabello initially followed in his father’s footsteps to become an antiques dealer in Plymouth.

West End art dealer Liss Llewellyn has teamed up with Modern British art museum Pallant House Gallery for a show of paintings of artists.

Dealers full of praise for annual York fair as international and trade buyers snap up their wares

St James’s gallery Stern Pissarro is taking part in Canopy, a pop-up exhibition in Marylebone at the Grade II-listed building 14 Cavendish Square.

Campaign furniture specialist Christopher Clarke Antiques has broadened its horizons for its next exhibition and is focusing on travel illustrations.

A museum show on war artist and poet Thomas Hennell (1903-45), marking the 80th anniversary of his death, has been put together with the help of Modern British art dealer Andrew Sim of Sim Fine Art.