Dealers' Diary

Sculpture sale shows visitors from the subcontinent are out in force at UK fairs and prepared to spend

The city of Wrexham in north Wales embraced international attention when Hollywood A-listers Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the local football club in 2021 and made a TV show.

Fresh from exhibiting at Frieze Masters, antiques dealer Joe Chaffer of Petworth gallery Vagabond is preparing to offer a collection of furniture, sculpture, paintings and decorative objects at auction house Dreweatts.

High footfall and strong sales make for another successful edition of the annual event The Northern Antiques Fair

Oxfordshire gallery turns spotlight not on objects as such for once but on where and how they were kept

Frances Allitt and Laura Chesters report on business developments in Paris, London and Dorset

Visitors from overseas filtered through to the mezzanine level of Evolution London, Battersea Park, above The Decorative Fair to see Tribal Art London.

Standholders at the latest Decorative Fair report strong demand for good-quality objects

Sim Fine Art’s annual catalogue Holding the Line devoted to British war art is now in its 16th year.

Patricia Wengraf has been a London art dealer since 1979. Her specialisms are bronzes, sculptures and works of art. She is renowned for her knowledge of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, having written books and articles on the topic, and regularly works with museums.

Like father, like son. Antiques dealer Mark Goodger has welcomed his son Jake into the business and they exhibited at their first fair together as colleagues at Battersea’s The Decorative Fair.

The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair welcomes new and returning exhibitors this autumn.

Latest British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery wins praise from standholders for an ‘enormously busy’ edition

‘I try to buy something with a little magic’ says Dutchman who deals in fine English period furniture

Hansord Antiques was founded in 1972 by David Hansord, joined later by his son John. Over the years it has traded from a number of premises including originally in the centre of Lincoln on Castle Hill.

A raft of new and returning dealers have signed up for this autumn’s LAPADA Fair in Berkeley Square from October 27 to November 1.

Famously, the academic ‘Hierarchy of Genres’ set out a pecking order for different types of painting.

Online purchases during the pandemic started an unplanned career in the trade and now a first exhibition.

Alongside its participation in Frieze Masters, The Gallery of Everything has dedicated its Marylebone space to the work of American artist Sam Doyle (1906-85).

Four centuries of art will be shuffled out of chronological order in Echoes Across Time, an exhibition at Simon C Dickinson in Jermyn Street, presented by Kocerova Fine Art.