The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s announcing the sale of works from the Lewis collection this summer.

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

Lamorna’ Birch collection formed by authority on the artist to be sold. A collection of works by Samuel John ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955) formed by an expe ...

Major record for Alfred Parsons as view of the Somerset hills flies over estimate. Alfred Parsons (1847-1920) is generally considered a solidly collectable Victorian-Edwardian art ...

Earliest known Castiglione court painting to headline Sotheby’s Hong Kong series. Asian Art Week at Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be led by the earliest extant court painting by th ...

Newmarket museum acquires three large equine portraits via tax scheme. Three large horse portraits by the British artist John Wootton (1682-1764) will be on display at The Nationa ...

Museums came prepared to buy at the recent staging of Asia Week New York.

This summer Sotheby’s will offer what is billed as ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’.

Monumental 16th century Italian tapestry to be restored thanks to TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund. A huge wool and silk tapestry titled The Meeting of Dante and Virgil and dated to ...

Sotheby’s annual results were boosted by the most valuable collection of the year – the Leonard A Lauder Collection, which it secured after offering a guarantee to the vendor. The collection, which ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...

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 ...