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Sotheby's is staging a single-lot auction next month, offering copies of all four Shakespeare Folios. The set, which will be offered in London May 23 with an estimate of £3.5m-4.5m, is the first time ...
This self-portrait painted by Joseph Wright (1734-97) at the age o… ...
A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.
London dealer Liss Llewellyn is currently offering an online sale of works from the estate of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd, many of which have never been seen in public. Bliss and Dodd have ...
Alan Taylor’s West Ham United shirt, winners’ medal and other items from the 1975 FA Cup final will appear at Stacey’s on April 28. When Alan Taylor lined up on the wet muddy turf at Highbury in the ...
"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...
The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...
A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) latest Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.
Guildford auction house Ewbank’s has agreed to suspend a planned memorabilia auction today after discussions with The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Ewbank’s had planned to offer 140 lots from ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86). It was acquired in a private sale from London dealer Daniel Katz ...
The appearance on the market of a piece of ‘A’ mark porcelain at Woolley and Wallis’s Salisbury rooms on June 4 will be an exciting occasion for English porcelain buffs, especially those of an ...