Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Tributes paid to Asian art dealer Michael Goedhuis
14 April 2026Condolences and memories of the well-respected Asian art dealer Michael Goedhuis were shared by the trade this week following his death aged 84.
Tudor metal-detecting discovery to head to Devon museum with help of London dealer
14 April 2026A Devon museum is in discussion with a jewellery dealer for the loan of a Tudor ring discovered by a metal-detectorist.
Exhibition celebrating John Bly at 135 years old and 300 years since Benjamin Franklin first appeared in London
10 April 2026Antiques dealership John Bly is celebrating its 135th year in business with an exhibition.
Mayfair art gallery splits in two and other expansion and hires news across the art and antiques market
10 April 2026The latest Movers & Shakers update includes news that art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena have launched two separate independent dealerships.
Saleroom goes for an Edinburgh extension
10 April 2026Building work is under way to create a 1000sq ft saleroom at Thomson Roddick Callan’s Auction Centre in Rosewell, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Chinese art collection from dealers and collectors comes to auction in London
09 April 2026Dealers, collectors and Chinese art specialists Marcus and Debby Flacks will be offering 50 lots from their family collection at Christie’s in London next month.
The Bodleian Libraries buys unseen works by photographic greats Lee Miller and Sir Cecil Beaton
09 April 2026A ‘scrapbook’ of photographs put together by Roland Haupt, a darkroom assistant in the London office of Vogue magazine, has been sold to The Bodleian Libraries by dealer Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Rare book fair returns to Dublin after three years
08 April 2026A new book fair is being planned for the summer in Ireland.
Art UK completes project to digitally record the UK's murals and street art
07 April 2026The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.
Strawberry Hill House launches latest fundraising appeal for Walpole-commissioned painting
02 April 2026Strawberry Hill House, the London home created by the famed historian, collector and social commentator Horace Walpole (1717-97), is fundraising to buy a picture once in his collection.
New auction houses, expansions and hires – the latest news from across the auctioneering world
02 April 2026A new auction house in the Wirral and an Indian auction house expanding into the UK feature in this Movers & Shakers round up.
The Getty Museum buys two 17th century Dutch still life paintings
01 April 2026The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz (1597/98-1660).
Plea to find Coalbrookdale benches and sundial stolen in Herefordshire
01 April 2026The owner of a group of four antique Coalbrookdale benches and a decorative armillary sundial has made a plea to the antiques trade to look out for her stolen garden items.
Somerset antiques dealer launches curated collection in London interiors shop
31 March 2026Rebecca Christie-Miller Antiques has extended links with interiors shop Pentreath & Hall and will promote a curated collection of antiques in its Rugby Street showroom in Bloomsbury.
Dorset museum’s fundraising secures letter from pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning at Bonhams auction
27 March 2026The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum’s fundraising campaign raised enough to buy a letter fragment from Mary Anning (1799-1847) offered at a Bonhams auction.
Dealers in St James’s warn that rent rises could lead to firms closing
27 March 2026The threat of significant rent rises in the heart of the historic art and antiques district of St James’s, London, have forced at least two galleries to contemplate leaving the area.
Madley back at the crease (or rostrum in this case)
27 March 2026Auctioneer Richard Madley has returned to the cricketing rostrum.
Indian auction house AstaGuru expands into the UK
27 March 2026Indian online-only auction house AstaGuru has expanded into the UK and set up home in west London.
Collection from former art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine comes to auction
26 March 2026Part of the private art collection of Michael Rand (1929-2025), the art editor and director of The Sunday Times Magazine, will be offered at Sworders.
Three ways to celebrate artist Cedric Morris: a talk, exhibition and garden tour
24 March 2026The reopening of Benton End as a museum and garden later this year has sparked a wave of Cedric Morris-related events.