2026

Auction house Sotheby’s has amended its buyer’s premium, raising its baseline rate to 28% for works selling for a hammer price of under £1.5m.

New locations, hires and industry developments across the world of art and antiques

ATG Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

One of the rarest of all British cigarette card sets sold for £8800 at Loddon Auctions in Reading on February 11.

A Suffragette medal awarded to the chief nurse to Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) is to go on public display in the UK at a new exhibition after being bought at auction.

Thanks to their artistic bent, the London-born brothers Walter Greaves (1846-1930) and Henry Greaves (1844-1904) are now two of the city’s most famous ever boatsmen.

With estimates from £100, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a souvenir programme from the 1909 FA Cup final selling at Sportingold

A painting by Modern British artist George Hammond Steel (1900-60) which was discovered in an RSPCA charity shop in Royal Wootton Bassett drew strong interest at auction earlier this year.

A bonheur-du-jour secrétaire by celebrated cabinetmaker Roger Vandercruse Lacroix (1728-99) has been purchased by a museum in Kansas from French dealer Galerie Léage for a six-figure sum.

ATG Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

Classic Antique Fairs has announced that it will launch events in Manchester and Perth this year.

"Oh goodness me, look at that..." said auctioneer Adrian Biddell as his colleagues presented him with the traditional handwear.

A drawing giving a first glimpse of the now instantly recognisable trophy from the oldest national football competition in the world, the FA Cup, sold above estimate at Budds on February 11.

A 17th century panel stolen from a church in Hertfordshire has been discovered and returned after being missing for 30 years.

The British Museum raised the £3.5m needed to buy a gold pendant discovered by a metal detectorist in a field in Warwickshire in 2019.

UK exhibitors at the recent BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels were heartened by a strong list of sales.

A pair of puttis, believed to have been crafted as one of a pair of chimney pieces for Bedford House in London, have been blocked from export.

Following the last-minute withdrawal of arguably Sotheby’s headline lot of the latest round of Old Master sales in New York, it has been announced that the rare double-sided panel by Antonello da Messina (c.1430-79) has been acquired by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week