Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

The latest Old Master auctions in London produced the highest total for a December series for seven years.

If this view of London by William Richardson (1814-99) looks as if St Paul’s Cathedral has been magically transported to the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice, that might not be too surprising.

A small number of intriguing 18th and 19th century pictures were among the works bringing the strongest competition in terms of the pictures at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine Art & Interiors auction.

A Shropshire dealership has rediscovered a lost portrait of an Elizabethan lawyer through heraldic research.

Towards the end of the 1940s and in the early 1950s, the artist John Minton (1917-57) painted a series of works in Cornwall, producing pictures mostly featuring boats, fishermen and harbours.

A trio of works by Cumbrian artist Sheila Fell (1931-79) were among the highlights of Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Modern Art & Design Auction.

A sale at Leland Little (25% buyer's premium) in Hillsborough, North Carolina, included a once well-known work by the Edwardian artist Charles Sims (1873-1928).

‘Two bidders going hell for leather’ race to £55,000 for scene by artist famed for atmospheric nocturns

How better to start a review of sales at the dog-friendly Decorative Fair than a quick canine picture selection?

For many decades, the collection of the German industrialist Walter Bauer, who died in 1968, has been hidden from public view.