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Umayyad gold dinars

Set of gold dinars coming to auction reveal that 77 is the magic number

14 July 2025

On July 23 London-based specialist coin and medal auction house Morton & Eden is offering a complete set of 56 Umayyad gold dinars dating from years 77 to 132 in the Hijra calendar (696-750AD).

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Cork Street galleries celebrate the first 100 years

14 July 2025

Exhibition titled 'Fear Gives Wings to Courage' celebrates a century of art dealing on London thoroughfare

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‘We’d love to be part of it again’: praise for new one-day Studiolo event

14 July 2025

Among the events debuting in London this summer was the one-day ‘fair’ Studiolo.

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Rare copy of Victorian photograph book makes £40,000 at Roseberys

11 July 2025

Discovered buried in the back of a closet in the US, a rare surviving copy of Peter Henry Emerson’s 1886 work ‘Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads’ sold for £40,000 at Roseberys today.

Olympia

Photo London to be first artworld event held at newly refurbished Olympia

10 July 2025

The newly redeveloped Olympia, set to be unveiled later this year after a £1.3bn makeover, will host 'Photo London' in May 2026.

Canaletto view of Venice

Top 10 Old Masters at auction

08 July 2025

The record-setting £27.5m Canaletto at Christie’s last week represented the sixth highest sum ever recorded at auction for an Old Master. But what others feature in the top 10?

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Canaletto is toast of London season as ‘£400’ Turner discovery nets £1.5m

07 July 2025

Works by two of the biggest names in art history put in a strong performance at the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.

Hellenistic gold wreath

Treasure House concludes with run of sales

07 July 2025

London’s Treasure House Fair concluded last week after a seven-day run and many sales.

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Goblets show family value

07 July 2025

Almost singlehandedly, Sir Laurence Whistler (1912-2000) revived the tradition of British diamond point engraving in the post-war era. His stippled glass goblets were particularly innovative: engraved on both sides of the bowl with views of the English countryside, they create an illusion of perspective.

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Plates pay homage to physic garden

07 July 2025

Chelsea Red Anchor period ‘Hans Sloane’ plates are named with reference to the royal physician, traveller, and natural historian who helped transform the Chelsea Physic Garden into a centre of botanical knowledge during the Enlightenment.

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Interest lodged in Beilby tumblers

07 July 2025

Among the great Beilby discoveries of recent times was the emergence - from two separate sources across 14 years - of six small firing glasses decorated in red, yellow and white enamel with Masonic emblems.

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Liverpool and Limehouse: Maurice Hillis ceramics collection appears at Bonhams

07 July 2025

Ceramics expert’s collection sold at auction included notable pieces made on Merseyside but also a Limehouse cup that proved very popular with bidders

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Indiana and Warhol in Whitechapel photography exhibition

07 July 2025

When William John Kennedy (1930-2021) and his wife were in the process of moving house in the mid-2000s, they found a box tucked away in the back of a closet.

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Debut summer exhibition so warmly received it could be a regular fixture

07 July 2025

E&H Manners, the Kensington Church Street ceramics specialist of more than 30 years, tried something new this year: a summer exhibition.

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Natural History Museum’s new dinosaur specimen acquired from London dealer David Aaron

04 July 2025

London’s Natural History Museum has acquired a newly identified dinosaur specimen from Mayfair dealership David Aaron.

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Cork Street galleries team up with group exhibition to celebrate 100 years

04 July 2025

The galleries on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, have joined forces on a multi-part exhibition running all year.

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PAD London announces early details of next edition

03 July 2025

Participants have been announced for this year’s PAD London.

Turner painting

Turner’s earliest exhibited painting makes huge return for eagle-eyed vendor

03 July 2025

A ‘lost’ landscape by JMW Turner (1775-1851), thought to be the first oil painting the artist ever exhibited, sold for £1.5m at Sotheby’s latest Old Master evening sale.

Union Jack flown at Trafalgar

Flag flown at Battle of Trafalgar brings spirited bidding at Christie's

03 July 2025

Still bearing the physical scars of battle, a monumental Union Jack flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar led Christie’s Exceptional Sale in London on July 1.

George Gower portrait

‘A handsome bee’: Portrait of Elizabethan dandy makes major sum at Bonhams

02 July 2025

An extraordinary Elizabethan swagger portrait drew dramatic competition at Bonhams’ latest Old Master sale.

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