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Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu (1917-94) is sometimes described as ‘the first African artist to gain international recognition in the modern art world’. He was dubbed ‘Africas greatest contemporary ...
A crowdfunding project by Bristol Museums Development Trust to bid for JMW Turner’s 'The Rising Squall, Hot Wells from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol' (1792), has reached in excess of £100,000. The ...
A First World War roll of honour brass plaque, that had been made into a coffee table, has returned to South Shields after 50 years away with the help of Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter.
Lowestoft Porcelain. The East Anglian fishing port of Lowestoft, set far away from the other centres of 18th century porcelain production like London, Staffordshire or Liverpool, began producing ...
Relocations and new gallery openings are among the latest Movers & Shakers. The latest news from around auction houses, ...
With estimates from £80, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week Devoted to advertising memorabilia, antique bottles, breweriana and early… ...
The latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London raised a combined £97.8m. This compared to £132.3m from the ...
LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2. Newcomers to the fair this year include Gladwell & ...
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 ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included a ‘treasure trove’ of rare coins found hidden in a house in France selling at auction ...
Early sales in the first hours of Treasure House Fair heated up the third edition of the Chelsea fair. Amid the heatwave sweeping the UK, exhibitors kept their cool and agreed deals in the opening ...
By 1897, the antiquarian Albert Hartshorne had published Old English Glasses: An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century.This seminal work ...