Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Tate’s acquisitions valued at £27.4m in this year’s annual report
25 September 2017More than 1000 works were acquired by the Tate in the last year according to its latest annual report. They ranged from Old Masters to Contemporary art and had a combined value of £27.4m.
New managing director for Bonhams Scotland
21 September 2017Bonhams have appointed Charles Graham-Campbell as managing director of its operations in Scotland.
Joseph Wright of Derby academy scene among leading lights at Sotheby’s Old Master auction
19 September 2017Sotheby’s is offering a fine painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) at its Old Master evening sale in December. It comes to auction with an unbroken provenance going back well over a century and is estimated at £2.5m-3.5m.
Chicago collector wins $200,000 bidding battle for 1857 map of the “Windy City” at Leslie Hindman auction
18 September 2017One of only four known copies of a ‘pre-fire’ Chicago map by cartographer J.T. Palmatary drew intense competition at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ latest sale, selling at over six-times estimate.
Model locomotives steam into auctions in Sheffield and Sherborne
18 September 2017Model steam trains are a niche collecting area but examples which precisely match the actual engines they represent can make thousands of pounds.
Collector creates website to record the works of Thomas Baker of Leamington
18 September 2017About a month ago, collector Robert Mulraine launched a website dedicated to the artist Thomas Baker of Leamington (1808-1869). A great enthusiast of the Victorian landscape painter, he has been working with the curatorial team of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to create an online ‘Memoranda of Pictures’ based on the artist’s five diaries in the museum’s collection.
Portrait of 1920s film actress Pola Negri with Rudolph Valentino offered at Bonhams
18 September 2017While plenty of general auctions around the country feature a range of 19th century and early 20th century paintings, Bonhams is staging its next dedicated sale in this category on September 27.
Phillips raises buyer’s premium following changes at Sotheby’s and Christie’s
13 September 2017Auctioneers Phillips have raised its buyer’s premium with the changes effective immediately.
Dutch civil servant’s tribal art and militaria collection emerges at Yorkshire auction
12 September 2017The wide and varied militaria and ethnographica collection of the civil servant and financial expert De Weledg. Heer P. Lamaison Van Heenvliet (1857-1941) will be offered later this month at Tennants of Leyburn.
Sotheby’s to auction Hampstead collection bought with “an insider’s knowledge and good taste”
11 September 2017‘Property from a Hampstead Collection’ is how auctioneers Sotheby’s are billing a large consignment of works from a ‘beautiful house’ in the leafy north London suburb.
Previews: Up to £500
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £501 - £2000
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Punch’s cartoonist Partridge plays his part as theatre artist
11 September 2017One of the less commonly known facts about Sir John Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), the lead cartoonist at Punch magazine, was that he had a spell as an actor in his youth.
Previews: £30,000 plus
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Wigan artist shines through
11 September 2017Fieldings’ picture consultant William Lacey said he could remember a time 30 years ago when works by Wigan artist James Lawrence Isherwood (1917-89) could be bought for £30-40.
Redhill view rises in Essex sale
11 September 2017Victorian landscapes can often be difficult to shift at auction, but a fine panoramic view near Redhill in Surrey by Edward John Cobbett (1815-99) gave a boost to the Boningtons (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Epping on August 21.
10 highlights from Sotheby’s upcoming auction of the Yeats collection
07 September 2017A collection of paintings, drawings, sketch books, furniture, letters and previously unseen archive material relating to arguably Ireland’s most important artistic family will be offered at Sotheby’s in London on September 27. Here ATG picks out 10 lots from the Yeats family collection…
From Albert to Victoria with love – a royal jewel saved for the nation
04 September 2017A sapphire and diamond coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria in 1840 has been ’saved for the nation’ after its purchase for the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.