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The French portrait painter Jean Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745) received numerous commissions from European royal families and aristocrats.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Glasgow Women’s Library has bought a hunger strike medal at auction after more than 500 people donated to help secure the signi f icant piece of Suffragette history.

On Friday, October 6, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1826.84 / €1729.06 / £1497.41

Not for first time in recent memory, a work by a female artist made an unexpected amount at auction that left saleroom watchers and probably even the auctioneers themselves struggling to explain the price.

Andrew Morris inherited the collecting bug from his father, David Morris.

Leigh Extence trades in antique clocks in Exeter and is a member of BADA and CINOA.

Heinrich von Brühl was without doubt the most prominent patron of the porcelain manufacture in Meissen.

A study of a horse and rider billed as a late work by Raphael (1483-1520) is being offered at auction in Austria.

Nineteenth century English clock adorned with Dick Whittington designs leads a look at horological hammer highlights and previews

Country house auction boasted not just on-the-premises appeal but Guinness and Duleep Singh connection

Long before the days of photo-realism, artists created remarkably accurate depictions of their subject matter.

Hot on the heels of just over 20 lots of 18th century Jacobite drinking glasses offered at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on August 16 (see ATG No 2607), more of these desirable items appeared at two other salerooms.

Wiener Werkstätte designer died aged just 36 but still produced an extensive range in various materials

For many decades, Wolfgang Steiner and his wife Gisela have devoted their collecting passion towards verre églomisé, the art of reverse-painting on glass.

Your article ‘Rare Canadiana in Sussex… and another Bobins’ (Books and Works On Paper, ATG No 2607, plus an online version) made one significant error in an otherwise excellent review.

Jackie Mann died on September 5. She was born in Maghull, Liverpool.

James Clowes (c.1643-1705), who was born in Astbury, Cheshire, became a Free Brother of The Clockmakers Company in 1671 – the same year as Thomas Tompion, Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Joseph Windmills. He worked first in St Giles in the Fields and then at Saint Ann’s Blackfriars.

Rediscovery of overlooked female artists is a welcome reappraisal – and driving ever-higher prices

Spotlight on three exhibitions taking place in New York – starting with 18th century art from Rome