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Despite a recent work on paper auction record, the artist’s works remain relatively affordable according to specialists

Quality and craftsmanship is rarely out of fashion.

Memories of the well-respected Asian art dealer Michael Goedhuis were shared by the trade last week following his death aged 84.

A Devon museum is in discussion with a London jewellery dealer for the loan of a late Tudor or early Stuart period ring discovered by a metal-detectorist.

An historic piece of Georgian silver – the ‘pair’ to the famed Walpole ‘seal salver’ in the Victoria & Albert Museum – is being offered for sale following its recent rediscovery in New York.

A ‘lost’ painting by Modern British artist Joan Eardley (1921-63) has been sold for £29,500 after it was rediscovered in an East Midlands charity shop.

A letter written by Florence Nightingale in which she discusses the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention is being sold by Sworders.

A new museum currently under construction just outside Paris has made two purchases at Hôtel Drouot this month.

Mark the diary for the appearance of two notable British portraits at auction in Paris and in Cambridge.

London dealer Darnley Fine Art of Cecil Court has sold a study of Henry Nelson O’Neil’s picture Eastward Ho! to The National Army Museum.

The Red Barn Murder of 1827, which occurred in the tiny rural village of Polstead, Suffolk was the biggest crime story of the era.

Produced in Ottoman Turkey between the 15th and 17th centuries, Iznik pottery experienced a sudden and passionate surge of Western interest in the mid 19th century.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news that French auction group Million has bought fellow Paris saleroom Pierre Bergé & Associés.