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With estimates from £200, 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 Sotheby’s announcing the sale of works from the Lewis collection this summer.

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

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

Lambeth’s Garden Museum is hoping to raise £420,000 to purchase a portrait of the gardener and plantsman John Ystumllyn (1736-86/88), one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain.

Alfred Parsons (1847-1920) is generally considered a solidly collectable Victorian-Edwardian artist but has never been in the same league as the major masters of the age, at least in terms of auction prices.

A seemingly unrecorded photograph of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde taken during his time at Magdalen College, Oxford has been found by Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter.

A collection of works by Samuel John ‘Lamorna’ Birch (1869-1955) formed by an expert on Newlyn artists is coming to Salisbury saleroom Woolley & Wallis this summer.

Two auction records were broken during the London spring series of Islamic and Indian art.

The Hampstead home of Muriel Jackson (1901-77) and her family was sold earlier this year and now around 60 paintings, drawings and wood engravings will be offered at auction directly from the house at 20 Well Walk.

This summer Sotheby’s will offer what is billed as ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’.

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team being called to the Ardingly fair

Asian Art Week at Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be led by the earliest extant court painting by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).

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

A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.

Museums came prepared to buy at the recent staging of Asia Week New York.

Three large horse portraits by the British artist John Wootton (1682-1764) will be on display at The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket following an allocation from Arts Council’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

A huge wool and silk tapestry titled The Meeting of Dante and Virgil and dated to 1546-49 will be restored with funding from The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Museum Restoration Fund.

Volumes from the personal library of a pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies form part of Sworders’ latest Books and Maps auction.

One of the dealers stalling out at the two-day Ardingly International Antiques & Collectors Fair last week was shocked to discover a Second World War shell among his possessions.