Dealers' Diary


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Faces that appear from different eras of history

22 May 2026

Art and antiques dealers have shared their latest finds with Antiques Trade Gazette including a 19th century copy of a Renaissance Madonna, a pair of portraits relating to a Scottish slave owner and a collection from a Second World War RAF bigwig.

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BADA’s big thinking in Rutland

22 May 2026

Smallest historic county in England hosts the dealer association’s first fair outside London

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How three family members followed on after Sargent

22 May 2026

David Messum Fine Art’s latest exhibition features the work of British Impressionist Wilfrid Gabrield de Glehn (1870-1951), his wife Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873-1961) and his cousin Lucien Hector Monod (1867-1957).

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Perridge builds on Bonhams and Kallos experience to start own firm

22 May 2026

Madeleine Perridge may be the recent founder of a self-titled ancient art firm, but she is not the new kid on the block.

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Barye bronze trots off to new owner

15 May 2026

A bronze by Antoine Barye dating from 1860 was among the stand-out sales at the recent staging of Classic Antique Fairs.

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Petworth dealer explains why having a gallery is so important to business

15 May 2026

For its summer show this year, Ottocento packs its Petworth gallery with the works of Modern British masters: John Nash, Henry Moore, David Bomberg, Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, and more besides.

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Buxton buzz now lasts for three days not nine

15 May 2026

This month, the Buxton Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair celebrates 60 years. Now the longest-running vetted art and antiques fair in the UK, it runs from May 29-31 at The Octagon at the Pavilion Gardens.

Dealer Lee Williams from Cougar Antiques at his stall at an antiques fair

Quirky and eclectic is what the new Cotswolds homeowners want

08 May 2026

Cotswolds fair is "unlike any other fair – there’s a different type of person that comes to this one,” says dealer Ian Slade

Lucius Books in York

Lucius Books at a new location

08 May 2026

James Hallgate’s Lucius Books has now relocated and opened its new shop in the centre of York after a three-and-a-half year renovation project.

Christmas Eve a work by Patrick Heron

Heron spotting at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert

08 May 2026

London gallery holds its second exhibition since it started to represent the artist’s estate six years ago

George Claessen painting

Dealer news in brief including Grosvenor Gallery now representing the estate of George Claessen

08 May 2026

A round up of new developments from around the art trade

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Potter around a special Battersea selection

01 May 2026

Gardening and vernacular furniture displayed as imagined from Beatrix Potter's Mr McGregor’s garden shed forms a highlight from the upcoming The Decorative Fair on May 12-17

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London gallery expands horizons as 15th to 19th century art is paired with focus on photography

01 May 2026

On a hot afternoon in 2000, as part of his broader exploration of marginalised communities, Italian photographer Marco Delogu (b.1960) visited a Roma camp on the outskirts of Rome.

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Beauty of Brancusi’s world caught on camera

01 May 2026

Galerie Negropontes has turned to photography to explore the work of another canonical artist.

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London and Paris trio team up for Orientalism show

01 May 2026

'At the Door of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus', c.1889-91, was painted by Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904), one of the leading Orientalist painters of Germany.

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Turner prints quest leads to latest exhibition at Mayfair art dealer Gerrish Fine Art

01 May 2026

The quest for Turner prints is a constant in the career of British art dealer Hilary Gerrish, who started trading in 1971.

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Key work by Joseph Southall secured for dealers' show just in the nick of time

24 April 2026

Next month’s exhibition on Joseph Southall (1861-1944), a joint effort by dealers Harry Moore-Gwyn and Sarah Colegrave, was six years in the making, yet the key piece came to the duo at nearly the last moment.

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Ann Lee Warner made an impact with a stellar chinoiserie cabinet

24 April 2026

Female artists and makers are well represented at this year’s Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Of particular note is Ann Lee Warner, about whom little is known, but whose name appears on a lacquer cabinet offered by Reindeer Antiques.

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Golden opportunity to buy a work marking Magna Carta anniversary

24 April 2026

Peter Harrington Rare Books presents a selection of British treasures fit to delight a US audience at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.

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Prolific John Piper in demand in galleries and at auction

17 April 2026

Despite a recent work on paper auction record, the artist’s works remain relatively affordable according to specialists

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