Organisations
Trade organisations play an important role in the art and antiques market. Their remit may include lobbying, communicating information to members, offering professional development and qualifications, organising events, setting standards and ensuring adherence to them.
Other organisations listed in this section perform different functions such as providing online marketplaces, education or supplying other services to the art and antiques trade.

Dealers prove game for countryside fair
12 April 2021More than 20 LAPADA dealers have signed up to take stands at The Game Fair this summer.

Funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies helps Art UK improve access to public art
07 April 2021Public access to artworks in UK collections has been given a boost with a tie up between Bloomberg Philanthropies and Art UK.

A fresh face at Phillips and a new president at the ABA are among the latest appointments across the art and antiques sector
07 April 2021The latest Movers and Shakers across the art and antiques sector.

BADA Friends returns to in-person events this summer
27 March 2021BADA Friends, part of The British Antique Dealers' Association, ran a virtual schedule through lockdown but is returning to physical events.

Online bidding: The key moment
22 March 2021Fifteen years ago an auction was held which heralded the online transformation in the bidding process and opened sales up to potential buyers across the world

The Open Art Fair loses court appeal over early closure
15 March 2021BADA Ltd, the organiser of The Open Art Fair, has lost an appeal against a small claims court ruling that said two dealers need pay only part of their stand fee as the event was cut short.

ATG letters: ‘Antiques Council’ – start with a smaller selection of people
15 March 2021MADAM – Further to the fraught issue of a possible merger between BADA and LAPADA.

Consultation on exemption process for Ivory Act launched
10 March 2021The UK Government has launched a consultation on how exemptions to allow the trade in some items under the Ivory Act will be implemented and processed.
ATG letter: Yes, an ‘antiques council’ is exactly what the trade needs
08 March 2021MADAM – Re: ‘What’s really needed is a broader antiques council’ Letters, ATG No 2482).

Budget for recovery: culture and arts sector and shops among those to get new grants
03 March 2021Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a series of measures to try to return the economy to stronger growth during and after the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.

The Brexit effect: Dealers learning to live with complicated new trading rules for the vital EU market
01 March 2021When Freya Simms presented at a European art market conference in late January, forecasting what dealers should expect in 2021, the LAPADA chief executive illustrated her slides with an image of someone dragging a ball of red tape up the hill.

ATG letter: What’s really needed is a broader ‘antiques council’
01 March 2021MADAM – Recent events (Brexit, the removal of the exemption for antique ivory, Covid) have all highlighted the need for a clear single ‘Antiques Trade’ voice to speak to Government and the wider world.

News in Brief – including BADA's election of council members
01 March 2021A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the British Antique Dealers’ Association's election of council members

Visit palaces, museums and private collections from the comfort of your armchair with BADA Friends online events
28 February 2021BADA Friends, part of The British Antique Dealers' Association, has continued its events virtually until in-person versions can take place later this year.
ATG letters: Trade bodies merger plea: one Jeremy for, one against…
22 February 2021MADAM – At the risk of boring your readers with yet another letter from me, I would like to endorse Kay Michie’s very sensible suggestion that one organisation representing the antiques trade would be better than two (Letters, ATG No 2479).

ATG letter: Brexit makes single trade body a vital step
15 February 2021MADAM – It will come as no surprise that I, for one, wholeheartedly support the proposal from Kaye Michie (see Letters & Opinion, ATG No 2479) that the two antiques dealer associations, BADA and LAPADA, should be merged.
ATG letter: Time to ask the members for their opinions
15 February 2021MADAM – It has been a rough sea for BADA of late and I sincerely hope that BADA will not become ‘The Flying Dutchman’ of the Art and Antique world: endlessly at sea, talking to itself with neither destination nor home port.

‘Time has come to act’ on merger of two antiques trade associations
08 February 2021A merger of the two major antiques trade associations, The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) and LAPADA, is again up for discussion.
ATG letter: Trade associations must be inclusive and streamlined
08 February 2021MADAM – I would like to open up the discussion on merging the two major antique trade associations BADA and LAPADA.

Rare George III watch barred from leaving country in hope it can be bought by a UK buyer
03 February 2021A £2m pocket watch once owned by George III has been temporarily blocked from export to give a UK institution the chance to purchase it.

- De Eland
- Art, Antiques & Furniture
- 12 Apr 2021
- Canterbury Auction Galleries
- Annie Marchant Collection of Kitchenalia
- 12 Apr 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Babuino Casa d'Aste
- Modern & Contemporary Art
- 13 Apr 2021
- Bassenge
- Books, Graphics & Autographs
- 13 Apr 2021
- De Zwaan
- Art & Antiques
- 13 Apr 2021
- Sigalas Auktion
- Art & Antiques
- 13 Apr 2021

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- 1818 Auctioneers
- Adam Partridge
- Adam's
- Addisons
- AderNordmann
- Aguttes
- Alcala Subastas
- Aldridges
- Amersham Auction Rooms
- Anderson & Garland
- Andrew Smith & Son
- Anthemion
- Antony Cribb
- Artcurial
- Aston's
- Auction Team Breker
- Auctionata
- Babuino
- Bainbridges
- Baldwin's
- Bamfords
- Barbara Kirk
- Barbers
- Batemans
- BBR Auctions
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Beaussant Lefèvre
- Bellmans
- Biddle & Webb
- Bigwood
- Bishop & Miller
- Bleasdales
- Bloomsbury Auctions
- Boldon Auction Galleries
- Bonhams
- Boningtons
- Bourne End Auction Rooms
- Brighton General Auctions
- Brightwells
- Bristol Auction Rooms
- Browns
- Bruun Rasmussen
- Burstow & Hewett
- Byrnes
- C&T
- Canterbury Auction Galleries
- Capes Dunn
- Catherine Southon
- Cato Crane
- Charles Miller
- Charles Ross Auctioneers
- Charterhouse
- Cheffins
- Chilcotts
- Chippenham Auction Rooms
- Chiswick Auctions
- Chorley's
- Christie's
- Clars Auction Gallery
- Clevedon Salerooms
- Comic Book Auctions
- Cotswold Auction Company
- Cottees
- Cowans
- Criterion
- Crow’s Auctions Gallery
- Cuttlestones
- Czerny
- David Duggleby
- David Lay
- Dawsons
- Denhams
- Dix Noonan Webb
- Dominic Winter
- Dorotheum
- Doyle New York
- Dreweatts
- Duke's
- Durrants
- East Bristol Auctions
- Eastbourne Auctions
- Elmwood’s
- Elstob & Elstob
- Ewbank's
- Fellows
- Fieldings
- Fine Art Auction Group
- Fine Art Bourse
- Flints Auctioneers
- Fonsie Mealy
- Forum Auctions
- Frank Marshall
- Freeman's
- Gardiner Houlgate
- Gary Don
- George Kidner
- Gildings
- Golding Young & Mawer
- Gorringes
- Graham Budd
- Grand Auctions
- Great Western Auctions
- Greenslade Taylor Hunt
- Gros & Delettrez
- H&H Classics
- Halls Fine Art
- Hampstead Auctions
- Hannam’s
- Hansons
- Hartleys
- Henry Adams
- Henry Aldridge & Son
- Heritage Auctions
- Hermann Historica
- High Road Auctions
- Hindman
- Holloways
- Holt's
- Hôtel Drouot
- Humbert & Ellis
- Hutchinson Scott
- Jacobs & Hunt
- John Nicholson
- John Pye Auctions
- JS Auctions
- Jubilee Auction Rooms
- Juliens
- Kerry Taylor
- KettererKunst
- Keys
- Kidson-Trigg
- Kingham & Orme
- Knights Auctions
- Knowle Auction Rooms
- Lacy Scott & Knight
- Laidlaw
- Lawrences of Bletchingley
- Lawrences of Crewkerne
- Lempertz
- Leonard Joel
- Lindsay Burns
- Lockdales
- Locke & England
- London Auctions
- Lots Road Auctions
- Louis Taylor
- Lyon & Turnbull
- MacDougall's
- Mallams
- Martel Maides
- Maxwells
- McTear's
- Mellors & Kirk
- Michael Bowman
- Mitchells
- Moore Allen & Innocent
- Morphets
- Morton & Eden
- Mossgreen
- Mullock's
- Nagel
- Nesbits
- Netherhampton Salerooms
- Nicholas Mellors
- Noble Investments
- Olympia Auctions
- Onslows
- Osenat
- Paddle8
- Parker Fine Art Auctions
- Paul Beighton Saleroom
- PBA Galleries
- Peter Francis
- Peter Wilson
- Philip Serrell
- Phillips
- Piasa
- Pierre Bergé & Associes
- Piers Motley
- Plymouth Auction Rooms
- Potteries Auctions
- Rago Auctions
- Railtons
- Reeman Dansie
- Rendells
- Richard Edmonds Auctions
- Richard Winterton
- Ritchies
- Rogers Jones
- Roma Numismatics
- Roseberys
- Ross’s of Belfast
- Ryedale
- Semley
- Sheffield Auction Gallery
- Silverwoods
- Skinner
- Sotheby's
- Sovereign Rarities
- Special Auction Services
- Spicers
- Spink
- St Jamess Auctions
- Staceys
- Stanley Gibbons Group
- Stride & Son
- Stroud Auctions
- Summers Place Auctions
- Swann
- Sworders
- Tajan
- Tamlyns
- Tayler and Fletcher
- Taylor's Auctions
- Tennants
- The Pedestal
- Thimbleby & Shorland
- Thomas Del Mar
- Thomas N Miller
- Thomas R Callan
- Thomas Watson
- Thomson Roddick & Medcalf
- Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions
- Timeline
- Toovey's
- Trevanion & Dean
- TW Gaze
- Vectis
- Veritas
- W&H Peacock
- Wellers
- Whitton & Laing
- Whytes
- Wilkes & Curtis
- William George & Co
- Woolley & Wallis
- Wotton Auction Rooms
- Wright Marshall
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- 1stdibs
- Advertising Standards Authority
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association
- Antique Young Guns
- Antiquities Dealers’ Association
- Art Business Conference
- Art Fund
- Art Loss Register
- Art Recovery International
- Art UK
- Arts Council England
- Assay Office
- Auction Technology Group
- BADA
- BAMF
- CADA
- CINOA
- Company of Arts Scholars
- DACS
- DEFRA
- DMG
- EBay
- Hiscox
- LAPADA
- Lot-tissimo
- National Trust
- NAVA
- Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association
- RICS
- Society of London Art Dealers
- SOFAA
- the saleroom
- Triple-A Auctioneers
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- Affordable Art Fair
- Antiques Centres
- Antiques Dealers Fair Limited
- Antiques for Everyone Fair
- Ardingly Fair
- Art Antiques London
- Arthur Swallow Fairs
- Bath Decorative Antiques Fair
- Battersea Decorative Fair
- Bermondsey Market
- Book Fairs
- BRAFA
- British Art Fair
- Brussels Fairs
- CADA Fair
- Car Boot Fairs
- Clarion Events
- Continuity Fairs
- Cooper Events
- Fine Art Asia
- Fine Arts Paris
- Florida Fairs
- French Fairs
- Frieze
- Frieze Masters
- Galloway Antiques Fairs
- Harrogate Fairs
- Hatton Garden
- Haughton Fairs
- Hong Kong Fairs
- IACF
- Jaguar Fairs
- LAPADA Fair
- Lincolnshire Antiques and Home Show
- Masterpiece
- Miami Fairs
- Midcentury Modern
- Modern British Art Fair
- NEC Birmingham
- New York Fairs
- Newark Fair
- Newbury Antiques and Collectors Fair
- Olympia Fair
- PAD London
- Palm Beach Fairs
- Paris Biennale
- Paris Fairs
- Paris Parcours
- Paris Tableau
- Penman Fairs
- Philadelphia Fairs
- Regional Fairs
- Salon du Dessin
- Sandown Park Racecourse Fair
- Showground Fairs
- Swinderby Fair
- TEFAF
- The Open Art Fair
- Winter Antiques Show
- Works on Paper Fair
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- A Lawyer Writes
- Around the Auction Houses
- Art Market
- Auction Reports
- Bid Barometer
- Books and Works on Paper
- Dealers' Diary
- Fairs & Markets (print edition)
- Features
- Front Page and News
- International (print edition)
- Interviews and Newsmakers
- Letters to the Editor
- News in Brief
- Obituaries (print edition)
- Opinion
- Pick of the Week
- Precious Metals Prices
- Previews
- Soapbox
- Special Reports
- Then & Now
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- Arms, Armour & Militaria
- Bank notes
- Books & Periodicals
- Cameras & Camera Equipment
- Classic Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
- Coins
- Collectables
- Entertainment Memorabilia
- Kitchenalia
- Maps
- Models, Toys, Dolls & Games
- Musical Instruments & Memorabilia
- Scientific Instruments
- Sporting Memorabilia & Equipment
- Stamps
- Taxidermy & Natural History
- Tools
- Wines & Spirits
- Writing Instruments