Dealers' Diary

The fair held at a folk art musuem proved useful for dealers to encounter regular clients as well as new faces

Christina Jansen is managing director of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, which was established in 1842. She started in the applied arts department before working her way up to run the gallery in 2016. On show at the gallery now are several Contemporary exhibitions running until December 23 including The Miniaturist Gallery (more below) and a selection of pictures by Victoria Crowe.

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

'Landscape and Figures' by Archibald McGlashan (1888-1980) is among the highlights at Ottocento’s Modern British art exhibition.

From 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' to 'The Last Duel', films nearly always depict the Middle Ages as dark, dingy and beset by bad weather.

London poster specialist stages two shows – one held in an embassy

Antiques-dealer-turned-artist Tom Hickman is the focus of this winter’s exhibition at Robert Young.

One of the dealers taking part in the inaugural Classic Antique Fairs staging at Birmingham’s NEC has gone on television to promote the show.

Sculpture dealer Willoughby Gerrish is using London Art Week (LAW) as a chance to launch another branch of his business.

BADA (The British Antique Dealers’ Association) awarded artist Mark Purllant its BADA Art Prize 2023.

Dr Leng Tan is retiring after 22 years working at Simon Ray, a specialist in Indian & Islamic works of art.

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

Among the highlight sales reported at the Art & Antiques Fair Olympia was a Japanese bronze of a carp.

Dealer Miles Barton is looking back over 20 years of selling portraits with a book featuring some of his best discoveries and an exhibition of more examples.

An automaton brass dial longcase clock by Richard Comber of Lewes (1742-1824) is one of the highlights at an exhibition in the clockmaker’s hometown devoted to Adam and Eve.

Archaic and Contemporary works are often considered suitable bedfellows in the world of modern collecting, and buyers may find both at Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch’s next exhibition.

Oliver Brooke-Walder deals in art from the 16th century to the present in London.

A near pair of Rhodian bed curtains were among the highlight sales at Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch’s recent exhibition 'Four Rivers from Eden: Works of Art and Paintings from the Islamic & Indian World'.

Emma Rutherford, the portrait miniature specialist formerly of Philip Mould who went solo earlier this year, is holding her second pop-up exhibition this week.

Dealers hail return to Midlands venue a year after closure of popular Antiques for Everyone events