Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Mayfair dealer curates landscape exhibition from Frank Cohen collection at Fortnum & Mason
11 August 2018Robert Upstone, a Modern British art dealer and former director of the Fine Art Society, has curated this year’s collaboration between upmarket food purveyor Fortnum & Mason and leading art collector Frank Cohen.
Spitfire flypasts and vintage makeovers: New festival at Royal Air Force Museum Cosford launchs this weekend
10 August 2018A new Vintage and Handmade Festival launches this weekend at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Shropshire.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's cabinet for ‘Miss Cranston’ goes under the hammer in Cambridge
08 August 2018A cabinet made by Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Catherine Cranston, a Victorian tea room entrepreneur, goes under the hammer at Willingham Auctions this week.
Movers and Shakers: the latest arts and antiques appointments
06 August 2018Our latest look at new roles in the art and antiques trade.
Clarion call: Winter Olympia to go ahead after sufficient sign-ups
06 August 2018The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia has been saved and will return this year in a new format thanks to commitment from more than 50 dealers.
Golfing memorabilia dealers get into the swing of things
06 August 2018The set of flicker books published c.1930 titled 'Drive and Mashie', 'Brassie and Iron' and 'Out the Rough and Putt', were once used as teaching aids for golfers.
Latest London Art Week shows buyers are looking for personality in their portrait purchases
06 August 2018Eye-catching, head-turning and mouth-watering: it was the human form, from ancient statuettes to modern portraits, that caught buyers’ attention at the most recent edition of London Art Week.
Meissen teapot among top sales at 'A Collectors’ Paradise'
06 August 2018This early Meissen teapot and cover was among the stand-out sales at the joint selling exhibition 'A Collectors’ Paradise' held at Brian Haughton Gallery in St James’s.
Joseph Farquharson and Thomas Gainsborough works among highlights of McEwan Gallery's summer show
06 August 2018August can be a quiet time for exhibition-goers as dealers head off home or on holiday following the busier days of June and July. But some galleries take the summer as an opportunity to display an assortment of stock.
5 Questions: Bill Clark
06 August 2018Bill Clark runs Clark Art, which specialises in LS Lowry and modern British art, in Cheshire.
They said what?! The week (July 30 – August 5) in quotes from the art and antiques market
05 August 2018“It was our duty to try to save the collection as a whole…” In this edition of our weekly quotes roundup, representatives of the art and antiques market talk about books, bibles and buying for Britain.
Fiumano Clase stages exhibition of landscapes by Sky Arts competition artist Lucy Smallbone
04 August 2018London contemporary art gallery Fiumano Clase is staging and exhibition of works by Lucy Smallbone, one of the contestants in the Sky Arts series ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’.
Winter Olympia saved thanks to dealer commitment
03 August 2018‘The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia’ has been saved and will return this year in a new format thanks to dealer commitment.
Visitors go for porcelain and ceramics at summer edition of Birmingham fair
03 August 2018Porcelain, pottery and ceramics were among the best-sellers at the most recent edition of ‘Art & Antiques for Everyone’, which took place at Birmingham’s NEC last month.
Dealer launches passport project to identify Martin Brothers Birds
02 August 2018A Gloucestershire pottery dealer has launched a line of individual passports for Martin Brothers’ pottery “Wally Birds” to help owners record the histories of these widely coveted objects.
They said what?! The week (23-29 July) in quotes from the art and antiques market
29 July 2018Far from wilting in the heat of recent days, auctioneers announced standout results this week. Meanwhile dealers made major international decisions and online portals cranked up the pressure on one another. Below, read our roundup of top quotes from the past seven days.
Sue Ede purchases Matford Antiques & Collectors Fair
27 July 2018The Matford Antiques & Collectors Fair in Exeter has been acquired by Sue Ede, director of the Bath and Bruton Decorative Antiques Fairs and organiser of the Giant Shepton Flea Market.
Indo-Portuguese tray stars at Chorley’s country house auction with items from the former home of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts
26 July 2018An Indo-Portuguese mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell tray surpassed expectations to become the top lot at Chorley’s two-day country house sale (buyer’s premium 24%) in Gloucestershire this week.
Seeing space: Astronomical anniversaries celebrated in Scottish exhibition as collection of Neil Armstrong goes under the hammer
25 July 2018Two major shifts took place in the way humans visualise space in 1968, now 50 years ago, and Ingleby Gallery Edinburgh is marking the pair of anniversaries with a show featuring past and present depictions of the cosmos.
Dealer’s online exhibition focuses on art and the aftermath of World War One
24 July 2018John Moody’s portrait of a widow, painted 10 years after her husband was killed in 1917, is part of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art’s online selling exhibition World War One and its Aftermath.