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The galleries on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, have joined forces on a multi-part exhibition running all year.
New show taps into trend for Swedish art Panter and Hall are hosting an exhibition of Swedish painters in its Pall Mall gallery, the first of its kind in a London dealership for many decades.
Participants have been announced for this year’s PAD London.
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 ...
Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...
A ‘lost’ landscape by JMW Turner (1775-1851), thought to be the first oil painting the artist ever exhibited, sold for £1.5m at Sotheby’s latest Old Master evening sale. Depicting a former hot spa in ...
An extraordinary Elizabethan swagger portrait drew dramatic competition at Bonhams’ latest Old Master sale. The three-quarter-length painting of the opulently dressed Sir Edward Monins of Waldershare ...
British studio pottery moved into new financial territory at the end of June with the sale of a vase by Dame Magdalene Odundo (b.1950) for £570,000. The price is not just an auction high for a living ...
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 ...
The ‘Mambury’ set of 10 apostle spoons, made by the prolific and renowned Daniel Cary, London 1607. Silver spoons with finials in the form of the Apostles – each with his identifying emblem – were ...
After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...
Medals associated with the Indian Mutiny are among the most sought-after awards linked to the British occupation of the Subcontinent. Dreweatts/Bloomsbury offered this 1857-8 Indian Mutiny Medal, in ...