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Venetian painter sometimes used studio assistants

A collection of 23 vintage photographs is showcased in Robert Young Antiques’ exhibition Ironmongers.

When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.

On Friday, May 3, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2307.91 €2143.07 £1831.68

Theme of Firsts fair centres on works not being seen just as reading material but things of beauty

Our selection of lots from six upcoming auctions

In a joint portrait miniature exhibition by Emma Rutherford of The Limner Company and Nick Cox of Period Portraits a depiction of Jane Seymour by Wenceslas Hollar (1607-77) is among the highlights.

This impressive clock featured in the sale held by Dorset firm Busby (25% buyer’s premium) on April 18.

As well as his usual commercial stand at Photo London this year, Robert Hershkowitz stages a special exhibition on French calotype.

An owner of reclamation centre has set up shop at the invitation of a renowned Norwich retailer.

A vesta case decorated with a campaigning Suffragette is among the highlights at the Buxton Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

With very few exceptions, the French artist Victor Philippe Lemoine-Benoit devoted almost all of his painting career to one subject: hot-air balloons of the Montgolfière type.

This large silver zoomorphic aquamanile Caquesseitão (a vessel designed for the ceremonial washing of hands at the table) will feature as a highlight of the May sale to be held by Veritas Art Auctioneers in Lisbon.

The latest regional event for members of the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) took place in a Somerset country home to preview a private collection of Oriental works.

The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.

Practical campaign furniture is one of the stars as West Sussex event reaches its 10th anniversary

Some 50 years ago, indeed prior to the beginning of my subscription with the ATG in 1971, I acquired this oval silver plaque, dateable to the late 18th/early 19th century on stylistic grounds, measuring 29 x 89mm and weighing 44gms, with a plain reverse.

To understand how European audiences viewed the Middle East in the 19th century, you could do worse than look at the body of work produced by Belgian artist Jan-Baptist Huysmans (1826-1906)*.

It has often been said that no other work of art encompasses the spirit of the Bauhaus more perfectly than Marianne Brandt’s tea-infuser or Teeextraktkännchen MT49, as it was officially called.

Ben Haynes, chairman of Dawsons Auctioneers, recently presented the AH Baldwin Salver to David Hughes in his first event as captain of the Fine Art Golfing Society (FAGS) in 2024.