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A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable (1776-1837) depicting Hampstead Heath is coming up for auction next month at Woolley & Wallis.

A remarkable archive of newly discovered scientific papers by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley has been temporarily blocked from export.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a British coin sold at auction that features the never-seen-before name Esunertos.

Opinionated and philosophical missives to friends and first editions from the Lord of the Rings cycle are available through Bayliss Rare Books

The glasses will now be displayed in the Uri Geller Museum in Tel Aviv

Last week a taxidermy display including the extinct Huia bird of New Zealand sold for £38,000 at Kinghams’ sale. On September 24, it is the turn of another long-gone species to be brought to life in auction terms, at least.

The love affair between painter Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) and Evelyn St. George has always been a subject of great public interest.

A selection of 100 paintings from the collection of the Paisley Art Institute in Scotland has been consigned to Lyon & Turnbull.

Martin Beisly Fine Art has sold a major work by a female Victorian artist to Manchester Art Gallery.

Chabi Nouri joins from Swiss bank taking over from Bruno Vinciguerra at the international auction house

A sketch of the Bastille executed only weeks after it fell during the French Revolution has emerged at auction in the US.

Appearing at Adam Partridge’s Devon saleroom this September is a truly exciting discovery. A finely preserved and virtually complete Ichthyosaur, dug up in Charmouth, is being offered for the first time at an estimate of £10,000-15,000.

An Interpol operation has recovered more than 6400 objects and made 85 arrests across Europe