Fine Art

A round up selling exhibitions and dealer news from the UK and Europe

Younger members of well-known dealer family firms set the pace at the latest LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair

David Ker, who has died aged 74, was an important and pioneering art dealer and larger-than-life figure, described as one of the most vivid upper-class characters of the last half century.

I much enjoy ATG's Art Market reports and would like to offer a small amendment and further biographical detail regarding artist Mary Dickinson (ATG No 2717).

Derek Newman, who died in September this year, was a dealer in English watercolours from Gloucestershire, at first in partnership with his mother Heather and then alone after her death in 2004.

This hand-coloured daguerreotype was taken in 1856 by Rufus Anson, a New York photographer who operated a studio on Broadway from about 1851 to 1867. His address is cut into the velvet interior of the case.

Drawing for mural design was first thought to be a lithograph

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

A collection of Tudor and Jacobean portrait miniatures rarely seen in public for decades is on show with Philip Mould & Company in Pall Mall ahead of its sale.

Writer, journalist and art historian Huon Mallalieu has published a new book and is holding a book launch at the French Protestant Church in Soho Square this week.