Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Promotions, new hires and rebrands feature in the latest art and antiques news round up
26 May 2026A rebrand at Bonhams and promotions at Woolley & Wallis are among this week’s Movers & Shakers
New chairman for Christie’s as Guillaume Cerutti departs all Pinault related companies
22 May 2026French billionaire François Henri Pinault has been named as the new chairman of Christie's, which is owned by his family investment holding Artemis.
Sculpture fraudster sentenced after Metropolitan Police investigation
22 May 2026A fraudster who tried to sell stone sculptures with false provenance through Sotheby’s has been sentenced after a three-and-a-half year investigation by the Met Police’s Art and Antiques Unit.
Liberty’s antique rugs, carpets and textiles offering comes to an end
22 May 2026The last antique rugs, carpets and textiles concession in a London department store closes this month.
HMRC launches ‘practical, engaging tool’ to help understand anti-money laundering rules
22 May 2026New training videos to help auction houses and dealers deal with anti-money laundering regulations have been published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Appeal for information on lost Frederic Leighton portraits from stately home
22 May 2026English Heritage has launched an appeal to help find three portraits by artist Frederic Leighton (1839-96) once on display at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire.
Faces that appear from different eras of history
22 May 2026Art and antiques dealers have shared their latest finds with Antiques Trade Gazette including a 19th century copy of a Renaissance Madonna, a pair of portraits relating to a Scottish slave owner and a collection from a Second World War RAF bigwig.
From Penny Blacks to Pokémon
22 May 2026How one venerable firm is accelerating its push into modern collectables
First World War trench maps and a 16th century cordiform world map are among the highlights at the next London Map Fair
21 May 2026Returning to Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, the London Map Fair is known as the largest antique map fair in Europe.
International buyers boost latest Firsts book fair
20 May 2026Buyers from overseas helped sales boom at the latest Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair this month.
Battersea's Decorative Fair celebrates strong opening day sales
15 May 2026Dealers at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park were praising the opening day as one of their best.
Read all about it: our pick of eight new books on art and antiques
15 May 2026Ahead of planning your summer reading, take a look at this selection of recently published art and antiques books.
Busy summer ahead in Bungay
15 May 2026We turn a spotlight on the bustling Suffolk town as a local antiques centre’s flea market is set to expand
Five questions with Giles Hume
15 May 2026Giles Hume is a dealer who runs Old Painted Furniture and Earsham Hall Antiques in Bungay
What's in store at The Old Store
15 May 2026Among other recent openings in the centre of Bungay is The Old Store which opened in June 2024.
Rescuers or wreckers? Upcyclers state their case
15 May 2026Giving a new lease of life to otherwise undesirable old items makes for an exciting, if occasionally controversial, line of business.
Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries come to auction this summer
14 May 2026A pair of late Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries with a Spanish connection will be offered at Bonhams on July 2 with a £200,000-300,000 estimate.
Rarely seen Mod Brit print archive to be freely available online following funding boost
13 May 2026A rarely seen print archive featuring work by Mod Brit art greats including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Paula Rego, Ceri Richards and John Piper will soon be available freely online.
Keats’ love letters returned to family after theft now come to auction
12 May 2026A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.
Sir Roy Strong’s garden statuary comes to auction after his beloved The Laskett is set to be sold
12 May 2026Statuary from the garden of art historian, writer and museum curator Sir Roy Strong is to be auctioned at Chorley’s.