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

Miss Vernon

Rediscovered portraits by Romney and Raeburn emerge at auctions this spring

10 April 2026

Mark the diary for the appearance of two notable British portraits at auction in Paris and in Cambridge.

Dealer Jenni Meldrum in her antiques shop

Sea Kist sails into the sunset

10 April 2026

South Queensferry, west of Edinburgh, was named last year by The Telegraph as the most beautiful town in Scotland.

 A vintage duck model

Next Beccles Antiques Market is in May

10 April 2026

This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.

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Bumper selection of jewellery on offer at Birmingham event

10 April 2026

A remarkable assortment of jewellery is on offer at this spring’s Classic Antique Fairs.

An item of garden statuary

French brocante in an Essex house

10 April 2026

Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .

A dealer in their antiques shop

Antiques shops: from The Gold Mine to Vintage Vaults

10 April 2026

Second Llandudno business gets off the ground

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Arts & Crafts northern exposure: woodwork made in Cumbria and Yorkshire – auctioned in Cumbria and Yorkshire

10 April 2026

Lake District cabinetmaker and woodcarver Ernest John Oldcorn trained at Gillows of Lancaster but he found his niche after joining the Arthur W Simpson workshop.

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CADA London report: ‘A great fair – where else would you rather be?’

10 April 2026

Sales abound as annual event run by Cotswold dealers association returns to Chelsea

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LAPADA fair bookings on the rise

10 April 2026

LAPADA has confirmed details and early exhibitor names for its autumn fair.

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Chinese cushion cover came from British military source

10 April 2026

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

Sybelle Thomson of Thomson Roddick Callan.

Saleroom goes for an Edinburgh extension

10 April 2026

Building work is under way to create a 1000sq ft saleroom at Thomson Roddick Callan’s Auction Centre in Rosewell, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

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Battle of the bookcase Old Master

10 April 2026

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house

Chinese art sale

Chinese art collection from dealers and collectors comes to auction in London

09 April 2026

Dealers, collectors and Chinese art specialists Marcus and Debby Flacks will be offering 50 lots from their family collection at Christie’s in London next month.

Photography album

The Bodleian Libraries buys unseen works by photographic greats Lee Miller and Sir Cecil Beaton

09 April 2026

A ‘scrapbook’ of photographs put together by Roland Haupt, a darkroom assistant in the London office of Vogue magazine, has been sold to The Bodleian Libraries by dealer Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Church murals

Art UK completes project to digitally record the UK's murals and street art

07 April 2026

The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.

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A 1950s robot is among five lots to watch

07 April 2026

With estimates from £500 here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

Strawberry Hill House

Strawberry Hill House launches latest fundraising appeal for Walpole-commissioned painting

02 April 2026

Strawberry Hill House, the London home created by the famed historian, collector and social commentator Horace Walpole (1717-97), is fundraising to buy a picture once in his collection.

David Bomberg’s Russian Ballet suite

‘Working archive’ of prints inspired Sorel

02 April 2026

Roseberys’ Prints & Multiples auction on April 16 includes 56 lots from the collection of avant-garde artist Agathe Sorel (1935-2020) and her husband Gabor Sitkey, also a painter and textile designer.

Beatric Potter letters

Beatrix Potter letters reveal her love for antiques

02 April 2026

Eighteen letters written by Beatrix Potter to an antiques dealer between 1933-43 come for sale in Nottingham this month.

Treen tobacco stopper

Bidders pipe up for treen at Yorkshire auction

02 April 2026

This Georgian treen tobacco stopper or pipe tamper sold for £2900 at Hartleys in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

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