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Bonhams Skinner has moved to a new location in Boston’s Back Bay neighbourhood.

A handsome pair of Regency period Egyptian Revival silver candlesticks with a Jane Austen connection sold well above hopes at Lacy Scott & Knight in Bury St Edmunds.

Many works by the great British artist are now owned by institutions but smaller paintings and sketches are common sights at salerooms

We sample a range of exhibitions taking place this summer – from a show on Second World War maps in Edinburgh to a display of Lucian Freud’s etchings at Titanic Belfast, a dive into the Picture Post archives in Cardiff, and a Magna Carta exhibition in London exploring the lesser-known Charter of the Forest

The Bohemian glassmaker Leopold Blaschka’s fascination with marine life began in 1853, when the ship in which he was travelling to the US became becalmed off the Azores.

It may be a new name in the summer calendar, but this inaugural initiative is building on a firm foundation of previous ‘collegial’ events encompassing an array of selling exhibitions

Changes are afoot in the art and book dealing hub Cecil Court this summer.

In its day, the Parisian porcelain manufacture founded by the Austrian born Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast in 1783 was regarded as a worthy competitor to Sèvres.

Artist survived a shipwreck but then spent a decade creating portraits and views of the local landscape

A wide range of dealer exhibitions are on offer to brighten up this summer even further. Here is a selection

London is host to two stand-out antiquities exhibitions.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a group of rare coins discovered in a wall.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

This unusual 19th-century Indian enamel-on-copper footed bowl soared to 26 times its top estimate at Lindsay Burns (22% buyer’s premium) in Perth.

Photo albums contain some of the first images of the remote country plus enthronement of the Dalai Lama

The summer exhibition from European porcelain specialist Serhat Ahmet runs at his Cecil Court, London, gallery until June 28.

The Salvator Mundi drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop which sold for €500,000 (ATG No 2692) was not the only sought-after work at Dorotheum’s (28/25/22% buyer’s premium) spring Old Master sale.

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds