Somerset fair features more than 50 dealers with theme of ‘antiques in a contemporary home’.

Among a series of strong art sales reported from the recent LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair was an 18th century portrait of a lady offered by Jeremy Astfalck of The Old Corkscrew.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Meg Andrews deals in antique dress and textiles and is a consultant to the Heritage Lottery and museums. She promotes textiles as hangings for interiors.

From new businesses to anniversaries, here is a review of some recent dealer initiatives and changes.

An oil on panel of The Tower of Babel, 1604, by Abel Grimmer (1570-1618/19), offered at £1.35m by Johnny Van Haeften was one of the stand-out sales during last week’s host of London art and antique trade events.

London and Petworth dealer Timothy Langston Fine Art & Antiques has sold a portrait of the Regency period antiquarian Sir William Gell (1777-1836) to the British Museum.

Interest in glyphic art, which reached its collecting apogee during the Grand Tour collecting, is resurgent once more.

Masterpiece London regulars attend Hong Kong event despite civic unrest

Mayfair show features 12 ‘seminal masterpieces’ first collected by Scottish baroness

Simon Wingett of Burton Antiques is among the exhibitors at Harrogate’s Northern Antiques Fair (October 3-6) and describes his stock as “an eclectic country house mix”.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A 120 million-year-old fossilised ammonite is among the selection of decorative items on offer at the Chester fair following a change in ownership and focus.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) is to hold a meeting for members on October 1 to discuss the sale of its fair and other concerns raised recently.

Rare book dealer brings early 16th century Sammelband to eighth edition of Frieze Masters.