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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Community cornerstone: antiques and vintage shop opened by dealers in Scotland

02 June 2025

Dealers Douglas and Brett Coupar-Fleming have spent the past year renovating a former department store in the seaside town of Leven on the east coast of Scotland.

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Extinct species skeleton brings £17,000 result

02 June 2025

This skeleton of an extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) sold for £17,000 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) Natural History and Taxidermy Sale.

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Feather brooch finds new owner after five-minute bidding battle

02 June 2025

This large diamond, sapphire and emerald peacock feather brooch was the highlight of a recent Fine Jewellery sale held at Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham.

Firsts at the Saatchi Gallery

Firsts book fair organiser delighted by the number of international buyers

02 June 2025

Event generates decent sales and a lively atmosphere during a busy weekend overall for collectors and dealers

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Fossils feature strongly at Parnham Park house sale

02 June 2025

Talk of ‘mammoth’ sales usually entails a sizeable selection of lots.

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Parure produced in Princes Street Edinburgh sells well south of the border

02 June 2025

Among the highlights of a recent jewellery sale held by Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford was this mid-to late-19th century amethyst parure.

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Gloucester antiques centre’s historic home given a makeover

02 June 2025

A medieval timber-framed townhouse that hosts the Gloucester Antiques Centre has recently been restored by heritage specialists.

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Shanghai municipal medal shoots past estimate in a popular collecting market

02 June 2025

A lot offering a Shanghai Municipal Jubilee Medal, November 17, 1893, proved so appealing that it sold at five times the top estimate.

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Grasshopper ring bound to attract attention as a Tudor gift

02 June 2025

A previously unrecorded Elizabethan gold signet ring, a gift from the influential Tudor financier and merchant, Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79), comes for sale at Noonans on June 17.

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Necklace boosted by a fascinating backstory

02 June 2025

This Victorian acrostic gold, hardstone and paste necklace, probably made in Rome c.1890, sold for £3800 (estimate £2000-3000) at Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery & Watches sale on May 22.

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Top stories this week including a ‘garden statue’ that turned out to be a six-figure Roman marble

01 June 2025

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Roman bust of the emperor Septimius Severus emerging in West Sussex

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Record price for Singleton as painting of the surrender of Seringapatam makes £1.7m

30 May 2025

A painting by Henry Singleton (1766-1839) depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan’s two sons to Major General David Baird (1757-1829) made five times its estimate at Bonhams.

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Former LAPADA CEO joins Gloucestershire antiques and interiors firm as managing director 

30 May 2025

Freya Simms, the former chief executive of dealer association LAPADA, is joining businessman Toby Lorford to help grow his Gloucestershire based antiques and interiors firm.

V&A East Storehouse

New V&A site opens with chance to order and view more than 600,000 items

29 May 2025

The huge V&A East Storehouse opens this weekend giving the chance to view many of its items and objects for the first time.

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Artwork recovered after theft 30 years ago in Canada

28 May 2025

A 1930s linocut by British-Canadian artist Sybil Andrews has been recovered after being stolen more than 30 years ago.

The Winter Art & Antiques Fair

Dealers fear downgrading at next Winter Olympia fair

26 May 2025

Dealers have voiced their concern at changes to the next staging of The Winter Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia.

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Nuts about novelty silver: Crichton claret jug nets £36,000

26 May 2025

This bright-eyed and bushy-tailed claret jug designed in 1882 by Alexander Crichton sold at a hammer price of £36,000 at Tennants of North Yorkshire.

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Photos show Maria Callas on and off stage

26 May 2025

Stelios Galatopoulos (1932-2022) was a respected Greek music critic (Cypriot-born) who was based in London.

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Louis Wain pottery is among five sales to watch

26 May 2025

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Karl Stengel

First UK solo show of post-war Hungarian artist

26 May 2025

Karl Stengel's debut solo UK show marks 100 years since the artist's birth

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