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Bonhams holds faith with specialist travel and exploration auctions

…whose painting skill is now clear… as a first selling exhibition for 30 years underlines

A long search for an 1914-15 Star had a happy ending after the Dix Noonan Webb (24% buyer’s premium) auction in London on February 17.

“I’m counting the days,” said a happy Mike Collins, director of market operator Sherman & Waterman as he ticks off the reopening dates for his antiques and vintage markets, centre and car boot.

Items assembled by well-known antiques dealer Ted Few will go under the hammer at London auction house Roseberys.

Collection offered in London auction included Agatha Christie and other crime classics

BADA Ltd, the organiser of The Open Art Fair, has lost an appeal against a small claims court ruling that said two dealers need pay only part of their stand fee as the event was cut short.

Spotlight on two London art businesses launched despite the challenges of lockdown

Spring is here (ignore the weather) and fairs and markets are suitably blooming again with the prospect of getting back to business.

This rediscovered portrait depicts a youthful-looking William Hazlitt (1778-1830).

Silver dealer David Addlestone is a longstanding trader at the Bermondsey Antique Market in south London which is reopening on Friday, April 16.

Sir Winston Churchill’s towering presence in the art market was on full display last week as his auction record was broken four-and-a-half times over.

Kensington and Chelsea Council is launching a new five-year plan for Portobello Road Market and is asking the trade to submit feedback.

One 1870s Thomas Hardy work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed

Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.

Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks in Kensington Church Street has been transformed into 18th century Toledo for a bedroom farce.

The Oysterdate Monte Carlo series were the first chronographs produced by Tudor.

Following an internal consultation – and a public outcry – the Wallace Collection has announced its library and archive will remain open to the public.

Bible sold for £160,000 at auction is reputed to be that taken by Charles I to his execution in 1649