The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a fundraising appeal for a Walpole-commissioned painting by Strawberry Hill House.

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of dealers in St James’s warning that rent rises could lead to firms closing.

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

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

Mayfair art gallery splits in two and other expansion and hires news across the art and antiques market. The latest Movers & Shakers update includes news that art dealers Edmondo ...

The Dublin Rare Book Fair, scheduled for June 12-13, will be the first time in three years that the … ...

Dealers, collectors and Chinese art specialists Marcus and Debby Flacks will be offering 50 lots from their family collection ...

Rediscovered portraits by Romney and Raeburn emerge at auctions this spring. Mark the diary for the appearance of two notable British portraits at auction in Paris and in Cambridg ...

The Bodleian Libraries buys unseen works by photographic greats Lee Miller and Sir Cecil Beaton. A ‘scrapbook’ of photographs put together by Roland Haupt, a darkroom assistan ...

National Army Museum acquires Victorian study from Cecil Court dealer. London dealer Darnley Fine Art of Cecil Court has sold a study of Henry Nelson O’Neil’s picture Eastward ...

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz ...