Dealers' Diary


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Dickinson’s budget sketches in Jermyn Street gallery

20 October 2025

Original works for under £100? Dickinson offers just that in its latest show 'Sir Francis Grant: A Society Sketchbook'.

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Penn in focus in Paris

20 October 2025

Images by American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009), who worked with Vogue for more than six decades and is credited with turning fashion photography into an art form, are among the highlights at the latest Paris Photo.

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Harrington gets into the travel business

20 October 2025

It’s a busy time for Peter Harrington. Hot on the heels of opening its Upper East Side gallery in New York, the rare book dealership is launching a loan exhibition on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein's monster and a new catalogue.

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Dealer's show focuses on the library’s changing role through time

20 October 2025

“Whoever made this thought of everything.”

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Jenna Burlingham Gallery hosts exhibition with works from William Scott’s estate

20 October 2025

Modern British art dealer Jenna Burlingham Gallery is hosting a selling exhibition from the estate of artist William Scott (1913-89).

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British Art Fair: Good business reported as Saatchi Gallery welcomes a 13,000 crowd

20 October 2025

Visitors turned out in droves for the most recent edition of the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery.

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Dealers' exhibition explores how tribal art fired the Modern masters

20 October 2025

Mayfair gallery Ordovas is hosting 'Dialogues', an exhibition exploring the influence of non-Western art on 20th and 21st century movements.

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Quarterly event is central to the arms and militaria calendar

13 October 2025

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

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A trio of autumnal London art and antiques exhibitions

13 October 2025

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.

LAPADA

‘The crucial thing is for exhibitors to do well. They have to make sales’

13 October 2025

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.

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Photographer Tif Hunter at Robert Young Antiques

13 October 2025

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

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Chelsea Rare Book Fair ready for autumn edition

13 October 2025

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.

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FAB enjoys its new date in Paris

13 October 2025

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

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A full house for the return of Westonbirt fair

13 October 2025

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.

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Frieze Masters preview: Focus on first of famous six wives

06 October 2025

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

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Angolan chair provides new angle on Regency

06 October 2025

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.

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Tempest blows in to Kensington's Reindeer Antiques

06 October 2025

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

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Everybody needs good neighbours, including sculpture specialists

06 October 2025

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

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Cheshire fair still going strong as others disappear

06 October 2025

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.

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Dealer Nimbus Antiques to stage retirement sale at Bamfords

06 October 2025

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

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