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The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a remarkable cache of Chinese works of art coming for sale in London this month.

Philip Hewat-Jaboor (1953-2022) was the chairman of Masterpiece Art Fair and amassed a significant antiquities collection at his Jersey home.

A locket purportedly containing a lock of Napoleon’s hair was offered at Gorringe’s in Lewes on October 8.

Following an 18-month conservation and research project at the Yale Center for British Art, an enigmatic double portrait that drew a dramatic competition at auction in 2021 is going on display at its new permanent home of Compton Verney.

Auction house Fellows will offer the collection from Joseph Bonnar Jewellers, following the retirement of its proprietor.

A painting acquired at a regional auction has been identified as a rediscovered work by the Canadian painter Helen McNicoll (1879–1915) and valued at £300,000 on the TV show ‘Fake or Fortune?’

Two studies by Orientalist artists offered with attractive estimates catch the eye of bidders at auctions in Dorset and Surrey

Christmas came early for one Louis Wain vendor as drawing of cats shopping for turkey fetched a five-figure sum in Surrey sale

The latest sale at Aces Gallery in Stamford, Connecticut was topped by the multi-estimate performance of a rediscovered allegorical painting by Venetian artist Paris Bordone (c.1500-71).