Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Welsh furniture dealer offers cupboard at festival
10 June 2019Tim Bowen Antiques brings this Welsh oak cwpwrdd bara caws (bread and cheese cupboard) to the midsummer Carmarthenshire event Midsummer Cahoots at the Hall (June 22-30).
Artists as celebs: debut sculpture show plays a fame game
10 June 2019When Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), leading artist of the French Romantic school, died in 1863, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts commissioned a bust to commemorate the painter and embody his genius.
Olympia summer fair caters for decorative buyers and collectors
10 June 2019French commode forms good example of selling strategy at long-standing London event
5 Questions: Nicky Gould
10 June 2019Nicky Gould of Gould Antiques offers a range of small items including portrait miniatures, perfume bottles and various objects of vertu from the 16th-20th centuries. She next exhibits at Olympia.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including how the rediscovered “Lewis chessman” was acquired.
09 June 2019Top auction lots including a Victorian fireman’s helmet and a record-breaking coin sparked reflection this week. Read what members of the trade had to say in our quotes of the week.
Four places to see and buy art in London this weekend including Russian illustrations and Bugatti sculptures
07 June 2019Before the explosion of art shows and fairs at the end of the month, there are still plenty of places to hunt out painting and sculpture around London.
Dealer son of D-Day soldier acquires landings poster and returns to France for commemoration
06 June 2019Nigel Talbot of Grosvenor Prints recently added the Second World War poster This is the Year to his personal collection.
Marilyn Monroe earrings, necklace and more memorabilia goes under the hammer in Beverley Hills
04 June 2019In 1953, Marilyn Monroe told the world that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But a pair of rhinestone earrings going under the hammer next week with a five-figure estimate could prove to be pretty dear too.
Label fits the bill as Oxfordshire dealer sells cupboard by John Coxed
03 June 2019A chinoiserie corner cupboard bearing the paper trade label of the Queen Anne furniture maker John Coxed has been sold by Oxfordshire dealership Alexander George Fine Antiques.
5 Questions: Book dealer Ben Kinmont
03 June 2019Ben Kinmont specialises in antiquarian books on gastronomy in California and is among the exhibitors at 'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair'.
The web shop window: 'A Night in London' by photojournalist Bill Brandt
03 June 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Steamer trunk at Galloway's fair could be full of interest as eye-catching table
03 June 2019A solid leather cabin steamer trunk by Harrods features on the stand of Malcolm Eglin Antiques at Galloway Antiques Fairs’ next event in South Yorkshire.
Distinct Barns-Graham images depict a distant isle
03 June 2019An acrylic on paper of Timanfaya, the only active volcano on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, by British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), is one of the highlights of the exhibition A Distant Isle.
Kent design decorates Chelsea vases at Albert Amor
03 June 2019A pair of large c.1760 Chelsea ovoid vases made after a drawing by English architect and furniture designer William Kent (1685-1748), is on offer at Albert Amor this month.
Book events provide real rarity value
03 June 2019Spotlight on some of the items coming up at the four book fairs all running in the same week.
Lunar map to give you a Buzz at London Map Fair
03 June 2019Over in Kensington Gore’s Royal Geographical Society, The London Map Fair includes an astronomical highlight to mark the 50th anniversary of the first moonwalk. The map, signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin, shows the lunar landing site, and is offered by The Map House for £7500.
PBFA fair in Earls Court promises a Lively time
03 June 2019At the PBFA London Antiquarian Book Fair, from June 6-7 at Ibis London in Earls Court, Rainford & Parris brings a collection of seven children’s books by Penelope Lively.
They said what!? The week in quotes from the art and antiques market including the market for Monty Python memorabilia
02 June 2019Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about fairs, a Hogarth painting in Leicester and the fate of the Salvator Mundi.
5 Questions: Book dealer Deborah Coltham
27 May 2019Deborah Coltham specialises in rare books, manuscripts and ephemera relating to science and medicine. She is an exhibitor at 'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair' (June 7-9).
The web shop window: 19th century pill-making machine
27 May 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.