Dealers' Diary

Top selling items at The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea included a large bronze sculpture.

Relaxed atmosphere of event held in the historic city wins praise from traders.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A group of Asian art dealers have committed to new spaces in St James’s.

Rowland Leach runs interior design and antique business French Loft with his wife Mary, specialising in 17th and 18th century French and English country furniture.

Antiquities specialist Charles Ede is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition and catalogue championing the understated elegance of Greek black glaze pottery.

Thompson’s Galleries, specialist in Modern and Contemporary British art, is opening a third exhibition space this October.

Modern British art gallery Jenna Burlingham Fine Art has appointed Lydia Wingfield Digby as its new gallery specialist.

Grand venues can work wonders for fair organisers helping to get punters through the door while providing an ideal backdrop for dealers to showcase their stock.

Involved in the art industry since he was 16, Steven Beale opened Trinity House Paintings in the Cotswolds village of Broadway in 2006.

One of the largest selling exhibitions in recent years of 18th century Plymouth and Bristol porcelain is under way at London gallery Albert Amor in Bury Street.

Encompassing mezzotints from the court of George III, gentleman’s library objects and furniture by master craftsmen of the Belle Époque period in Paris, BADA members are gearing up for a week-long series of gallery-based shows, talks and tours.

Organisers of the Art & Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) fair have announced it will return this winter to its venue at the NEC in Birmingham from November 25-28.

The first edition under fresh management impressed both exhibitors and visitors alike

Over six days, collectors and institutions gathered virtually for TEFAF Online 2021 to peruse the high-end offerings of more than 250 international galleries.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

This mahogany inlaid bijouterie oval table by Victorian maker Edwards & Roberts is part of a large selection of antiques making their way to Cheshire this month.

Dynamic and gestural, this vast 5ft 6in x 11ft 3in (1.67 x 3.45m) oil on canvas, below, was painted by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) during the 1980s.

Waddington Custot is one of the latest galleries to celebrate the work of pioneering 20th century women.

Ian Grutchfield is venue director of Hadleigh Old School, a new art space in Suffolk.