UK
The United Kingdom accounts for more than one fifth of the global art market sales and is the second biggest art market after the US.
Through auctioneers, dealers, fairs and markets - and a burgeoning online sector - buyers, collectors and sellers of art and antiques can easily access a vibrant network of intermediaries and events around the country. The UK's museums also house a wealth of impressive collections
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Spotlight on the Tomkinson collection
01 May 2023This special edition of A Japanese Collection (1898) by Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) is one of the first 25 copies printed on Indian paper and is signed and dedicated by the author to his daughter Dora.
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Son of prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz opens gallery in south Devon town
01 May 2023An addition to the businesses on the Ashburton Antiques Trail is Reuben Lenkiewicz Fine Art & Antiques Gallery, which is run by the son of the charismatic, renowned and prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz who died in 2002.
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Dressed to impress with a tassel
01 May 2023The dress tassels pictured here came to auction from the archives of Henry Newbery & Co.
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Get your teeth into this royal memorabilia
01 May 2023A Cambridge auction included a Buckingham Palace note-card scribbled on with pencil drawings by a young Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
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The 500th and final edition of a very special Endymion
01 May 2023Illustrator John Buckland-Wright’s own specially bound and annotated copy of the 1947, Golden Cockerel Press edition of John Keats’ Endymion topped a sale.
British and Irish book auctions: May 2-18, 2023
01 May 2023Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions
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Wucai wine cups bring flower power
01 May 2023This pair of wucai floral wine cups have Guangxu marks and are of the period (1875-1908).
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London dealer stages extensive exhibition and events celebrating women in the arts
01 May 2023The next exhibition at Bowman Sculpture capitalises on the curent demand for the work of female artists in spectacular fashion.
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Lewis Carroll’s ‘child friends’ photographs sell to French dealer
01 May 2023A series of photographs taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98) – aka Lewis Carroll – has sold for £94,400 as part of a timed online auction at Sworders.
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Pomp and ceremony at Gloucestershire auction as coronation robes go under the hammer
01 May 2023The reminder of earlier pomp and ceremony from a coronation came courtesy of a recent sale at Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium).
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Royal memorabilia to be spotted at the Petworth fair
01 May 2023Sarah Colegrave Fine Art, a regular at the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair, will bring a chair from the investiture of the Price of Wales in 1969.
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European landscapes in view on Canton vase
01 May 2023This 14in (36cm) Qianlong mark and period Canton vase of square baluster form is painted with four oval cartouches with European rural landscape views.
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Oils by Queen Victoria sell in London auction
01 May 2023Two oil paintings by Queen Victoria believed to date to the second half of the 19th century were found among family heirlooms in a Surrey cottage.
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Festive cheer from royalty
01 May 2023This Christmas card sent by the royal family was offered among a small group of memorabilia at Keys (22% buyer’s premium) of Aylsham on March 29-31.
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Last of Henry’s six wives and spared death or divorce
01 May 2023Sotheby’s Coronation Sale ending on May 4 is a cross-category collection of manuscripts, jewellery, artwork and objects relating to the British monarchy
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Spoon that served a princess
01 May 2023This medical spoon bears the crest and inscription The Princess Sophia (the 12th child of George III and Queen Charlotte).
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The web shop window: A collection of fishing priests
01 May 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Heads you win a final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait
01 May 2023The final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait was issued by the Royal Mint in two sets in 1893.
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Story of the start of slave trade abolition in Britain
01 May 2023Work published in 1808 is one of the highlights of a wide-ranging sale held in Gloucestershire
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Bannermen set to fly high at auction
01 May 2023Bonhams’ flagship sale of Fine Chinese Art in Bond Street on May 18 includes a rare Qianlong period ink on silk court painting.
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