With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Chinese handscroll generating a bidding contest lasting over an hour and a half ...

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 ...

After a successful event at the NEC in March, Classic Antique Fairs has put a paused on its summer schedule Classic Antique Fairs has announced the cancellation of the July Fair in the NEC Birmingham, ...

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… ...

It is perhaps fitting that the shirt belonging to a player who scored two goals successively in the … ...

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 ...

Among the attractions at this year’s ‘Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair’ on May 15-18 is the desk upon which Hilary Mantel wrote her celebrated ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy. Fold the Corner Books, founded by ...

A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London. Roseberys has given the paintings, originally part of a natural history ...

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.