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The exceptional provenance of a trademark Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) painting gave it a commercial boost when it appeared at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Cornish Art in Penzance.

If close personal connections between artist and sitter can raise the value of a portrait, then you might expect a picture by a celebrated artist of his mother to do rather well when offered on the market.

A fascinating archive of diaries and photographs shedding light on the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition has sold for almost £35,000 in total at auction.

A rare portrait sculpture of a scandalous Victorian heiress that sold at auction has been acquired by Buscot Park following a temporary export bar.

A portrait of the artist Laura Knight (1874-1970) by her husband Harold Knight (1874-1961) sounds like the kind of work always likely to generate interest at auction. And this is especially so if it happens to be previously unrecorded and offered with an inviting estimate.

The autumn events schedule for the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) has been announced with many events aimed at the younger generation of members.

Postcards by the so-called ‘outsider’ artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) are being offered in a selling show in Cecil Court, London this month.

A sale at Duke’s in Dorchester this week included two tickets related to the launching of two of the Olympic class liners in Belfast in 1911.

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

A picture wrapped in a sleeping bag and brought to the Fake or Fortune? team for investigation is the earliest recorded painting of an Indian sitter by a European female artist.

Artistically and commercially, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is a giant that straddles the Atlantic.