Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Legal challenge launched to stop redevelopment of Pimlico Road galleries and historic timber yard
02 February 2017Plans for the closure of galleries and the redevelopment of a Victorian timber yard in Pimlico Road is facing a fresh legal challenge.
French dealer claims he destroyed $100m of paintings from 'Spider-Man' art theft
01 February 2017A co-defendant of the accused art thief known as 'Spider-Man' told a court room in France he had destroyed five paintings worth more than $100m.
Lord Harlech's Kennedy letters and a painting by Queen Elizabeth I’s portraitist go to auction
01 February 2017Intimate letters from a recently widowed Jackie Kennedy and a painting by Queen Elizabeth I’s portraitist are among the lots being auctioned from Lord Harlech’s estate. After inheriting Glyn Cywarch, the family house and grounds in Talsarnau, Gwynedd in Wales on the death of his father in February, Jasset Ormsby Gore, now the seventh Lord Harlech, decided to put his film production career on hold to focus on the estate. To fund the upkeep of the Grade II-listed property he made the decision to auction off 400 lots at Bonhams on March 29.
Ceramics dealers launch Cotswolds auction firm
01 February 2017The Cotswolds will be welcoming a new auction firm when two ceramics dealers launch Kingham & Orme Auctioneers next week.
Crumbs! Biscuit tins head for Bristol auction
30 January 2017Are these Egyptian vases? Is that a handbag? In fact these objects are biscuit tins. Bristol Auction Rooms is offering for sale a single owner collection of Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins. 'The Art of the Tin' sale will include around 30 lots at Bristol Auction Rooms' Antiques & Furnishings auction on February 2 at its Ashton saleroom.
Calls for industry to ‘respond in numbers’ to ivory consultation
30 January 2017The survey that will kick off the government’s consultation into the UK ivory trade is expected to be launched this week, and is open to all to give their views.
Dealer Johns has Georgian on his mind
28 January 2017OLD Master dealer Derek Johns has set up a new home after 30 years in St James’s Duke Street.
‘Make the case for antique ivory’
28 January 2017Victoria Borwick tells packed London CITES seminar: ‘write to your MP’
Petworth antiques dealer's appeal over shop theft
27 January 2017Petworth dealer Tony Wilkinson is calling on the trade to help him track down a pair of stolen Regency lustres.
Swan song for Scottish Borders auction firm
27 January 2017Scottish borders auction firm Swan & Turner will hold its final sale next month and will close the doors to its Jedburgh auction rooms in March.
Thousands of artefacts and cultural goods seized in Europe-wide police operation
27 January 2017A suspected art smuggling ring has been busted after Europol and police across 18 countries helped seize 3561 works of art and cultural goods.
Plymouth collector swoops on Picasso owl vase
26 January 2017A Picasso vase uncovered in a remote Cornish cottage has sold at auction in Plymouth for £2800.
Dealer Bendor Grosvenor joins the board of Scottish auction firm Lyon & Turnbull
25 January 2017Edinburgh auctioneer Lyon & Turnbull has hired art historian and dealer Bendor Grosvenor as a non-executive director.
Ex-Christie’s specialist Brooke Lampley becomes vice chairman of Sotheby’s fine art division
24 January 2017Sotheby's have appointed Brooke Lampley as vice chairman of their Fine Art division. She will join the company after 12 years at rival Christie’s.
Traditional tenants of Burlington Arcade hope for a sympathetic new owner as it goes up for sale
23 January 2017Tenants of Mayfair’s Burlington Arcade are bracing themselves for change as Britain’s oldest shopping arcade is put up for sale.
Auctioneer recalls early bone of contention
21 January 2017A SPOT of bother selling a live rabbit to a butcher 57 years ago did not put off a fledgling Sussex auctioneer.
SJ Phillips moves upstairs in Mayfair
21 January 2017VENERABLE antique jewellery dealer SJ Phillips is to move to the second floor of Mayfair’s Bruton Street, ending a 144-year presence on Bond Street.
Man charged in north London gallery theft
20 January 2017A man has been charged in connection with the theft of a painting by Welsh modern artist Ceri Richards from Belsize Park gallery Sylvester Fine Art and will be tried later this month.
Tapestry dealer S Franses in court to defend right to stay in St James’s gallery
19 January 2017St James’s textile specialist S Franses is this week in court fighting for the right to stay in its gallery in central London.
Online art and antiques auctioneer Auctionata files for insolvency
19 January 2017The company behind online art and antiques auctioneer Auctionata and Paddle8 has filed for preliminary insolvency to restructure its business.