Museums and Institutions

‘The dust and mud of humanity’
26 May 2020In 2017, this lost portrait miniature of a young Dickens emerged at an auction in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa where it sold together with some household goods for the equivalent of £27.

National Gallery acquires trio of 18th century pictures from late art patron via tax scheme
22 May 2020The National Gallery has taken ownership of three pictures by 18th century greats Jean-Etienne Liotard, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Bodleian Library gobbles up chocolate box mini-museum for ‘edible’ books collection
21 May 2020The Bodleian Library has added an unusual piece of culinary history to its collection.

Export-blocked 18th century harpsichord bought by Gainsborough’s House museum
20 May 2020A harpsichord that was sold at The Canterbury Auction Galleries in 2018 to a US buyer and later barred from export by the government has been saved for the nation by Gainsborough’s House museum.

Future of the cultural sector discussed in LAPADA webinars as UK emerges from lockdown
19 May 2020LAPADA launches a webinar series this week with a conversation between the association’s CEO Freya Simms and Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Fake Mesopotamian antiquities seized at Heathrow airport with help of Border Force officers and the British Museum
05 May 2020A group of Mesopotamian antiquities destined for collectors in the UK was discovered to be fake and seized in an operation by Border Force and the British Museum.

British Museum unveils antiquities database but dealers raise concerns
20 April 2020A project led by the British Museum (BM) to combat the trade in looted antiquities from Egypt and Sudan has launched an online database where objects with ‘provenance issues’ can be brought to the attention of museum specialists and academics.

Catalogue for Bowes Museum show on history British antiques dealing made freely available
20 April 2020The catalogue for the exhibition 'Sold! The Great British Antiques Story', which took place last year at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, has been made freely available in its PDF format.

Collectors donate 100 pieces of studio pottery and Modern British art to The Hepworth Wakefield museum
08 April 2020Two collectors of British studio pottery have bequeathed 100 pieces from their personal collection to The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Yorkshire.

Van Gogh painting stolen in Holland while museum closed due to coronavirus shutdown
31 March 2020A Vincent Van Gogh painting from the early part of the artist’s career has been stolen from a museum in the Netherlands.

Science Museum snaps up collection of works by Second World War artist Paul Drury
23 March 2020Sim Fine Art has sold a 28-work collection of pictures by Second World War artist Paul Drury (1903-87) to the Science Museum in London.

Record level of Treasure finds boosted by metal detectorists and a tipper truck
18 March 2020The number of items deemed to be Treasure and found by the UK public has hit a record high, according to new figures from the British Museum.

Trio of high-value paintings stolen in raid on Oxford college collection
16 March 2020Three Old Master paintings, including Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Drinking, have been stolen from a museum in Oxford.

British Museum buys 3000-year-old Bronze age gold pendant
07 March 2020A well-preserved 3000-year-old Bronze age gold sun pendant, known as a bulla, has been bought by the British Museum after it was found by a metal detectorist in Shropshire in 2018.

‘Outstanding’ maiolica medicine jar bought by British Museum in tax arrangement with dealer Sam Fogg
28 February 2020A sixteenth century double-handled maiolica albarello, bought by Mayfair dealer Sam Fogg in 2014, has been acquired by the British Museum.

The Box catches the Martinware crab
24 February 2020The Box, a museum, gallery and archive set to open in Plymouth in May, has acquired a ‘colossal and extraordinary grotesque grinning crab’ by the Martin Brothers.

Record-breaking Martin Brothers grinning crab saved for nation heads to Plymouth after export block
19 February 2020A new museum in Plymouth has acquired a ‘colossal and extraordinary grotesque grinning crab’ by the Martin Brothers after fundraising to keep the sculpture in the UK.

Stolen Afghan sculpture to return home after being spotted at UK auction
21 January 2020An Afghan limestone sculpture believed to have been stolen during the Afghan civil war (1992-94), when Kabul was besieged, surfaced at an auction house in the UK last year.

UK buyer sought for £2.5m collection of botanical drawings blocked from export
21 January 2020The UK government is seeking a buyer to pay £2.5m for a group of 18th century botanical drawings.

Guilty pleas heard in Pittsburgh library theft
20 January 2020Two men have pleaded guilty in connection with the theft of rare books and manuscripts from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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