The years between the loss of the American colonies and George IV’s death in 1830 were the golden age for single-sheet political caricatures – bracketing the careers of two giants of the genre, James ...

An autograph album containing the signatures of notable figures from the early 20th century is to appear at Chiswick Auctions in a timed sale ending May 18. The album provides an insight into the ...

Derbyshire event attracts visitors not just from the Peak District but Cheshire, the Midlands, Nottinghamshire and south Yorkshire ...

Following opposition from the Indian state, Sotheby's took the 11th hour decision to cancel a Hong Kong auction of a collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha. Sotheby's said that, in light ...

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques LAPADA, the association of art and antiques dealers, has appo… ...

The Petersfield Antiques Fair can lay claim to attracting the hard-to-target youth demographic. A young man called Ezra bought his first antique from fair organiser Ben Cooper at the latest Peters… ...

Hong Kong auctioneer CC Wang conducted Sotheby’s ‘longest ever bidding battle’ when a calligraphy handscroll by a Yuan ...

International Antiques and Collectors’ Fairs (IACF) has announced that its biannual Celebration of Antiques held at the National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (NAEC) Stoneleigh will not be ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a monumental Hans Coper (1920-81) vase which was found in a London garden among weeds selling at Chiswick Auctions ...

Alexander Rotter has been appointed global president of Christie’s with immediate effect. Rotter has been global chairman of 20 th and 21 st century art at the auction house since 2017 where h… ...

This self-portrait painted by Joseph Wright (1734-97) at the age o… ...

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Asian Art Week is led by one of the great imperial Qianlong period paintings in private hands – The Blue Goats by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione and the Chinese ...