Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait Christie's is offering Anthony van Dyck’s (1599-1641) painting ‘An ...
They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...
The written note was from passenger Richard William Smith, who perished with 1500 others three days later ...
Sotheby’s is planning its first auction in Saudi Arabia in what will be the first sale to be held by an international auction house in the kingdom. Set for February 8, the two-part evening sale titled ...
A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four times estimate at Bonhams in London yesterday.
Recently rediscovered in a German family collection where they have been for at least a century, a pair of Ming dynasty wucai ...
More than £24,000 worth of items were stolen from National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset last month. A 1781 ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Dreweatts’ sale of items from the Leeds and London dealership Tomasso.
Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.
Prizes were awarded for outstanding objects at the opening gala party for this year’s staging of Asian Art in London. The two ...
Christie’s will offer a further 90 Rembrandt prints from the collection of the late Sam Josefowitz next month.
A trademark painting by Henry Pether (1800-80) attracted significant interest and sold for a solid price at Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine & Decorative Arts sale.