Dealers' Diary

Way before the TV comedy series artist Gilbert Spencer was depicting the Home Guard.

Exhibitors were encouraged by the second Art and Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) under ambitious new owner MaD Events.

Exhibition shows how painter’s shift from realism to Pre-Raphaelite fantasies paid off.

Grosvenor Prints celebrated its 40th anniversary in Covent Garden this month.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

There is still time to buy art before the end of the year, and many galleries and dealerships host dedicated Christmas shows. Though prices range, here is a selection of works available across the UK for under £5000.

A selection of sales made at Art and Antiques for Everyone.

Polly Bielecka is director at sculpture gallery Pangolin London.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Rumours of the death of shops are wide of the mark judging by the latest news of developments in the sector. Here is a selection of gallery moves and initiatives, starting with a new base for a business founded in 1884.

The British Art Fair (BAF) is to return to its previous dates in late September.

Madeleine Neave, curator of The Antique Breadboard Museum, has published a book describing her extensive collection of boards, butter knives and butter churners.

As with so many other businesses, art and antiques dealerships go into overdrive for the intense selling period up to Christmas. Here is a selection of five items from exhibitions and the latest catalogues.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Kelly Ross runs The Art Stable specialising in Contemporary and 20th century British painting, prints and ceramics.

One of the rarest pieces in Suffolk House Antiques’ Christmas selling exhibition is a Georgian candle stand in fruitwood and elm. The back would have protected the flame so that the person using it would have uninterrupted light even in a draughty house. Examples bearing the original backs do not always show up intact.

A pair of George III covered serving dishes made in London 1819 by Philip Rundell sold from the stand of Mary Cooke Antiques during the latest edition of the Winter Art & Antiques Fair in Olympia.

A small Worcester mug painted with a rare blue and white pattern, c.1752-53, was among the stand-out sales during Jupiter Antiques’ latest exhibition, where it was offered for a price in the region of £4000.

Tile formerly in the huge Baudry collection is one of the London gallery show highlights

Furniture dealer Christopher Howe is hosting a Christmas shopping event at his new Battersea warehouse on December 6-7.