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Letters from French and Scottish queens who shared tragic fates

15 May 2026

The sales at Stargardt (20% buyer’s premium) in Berlin are an important rendezvous for autograph dealers and collectors.

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Moreau festive designs for birth of the Dauphin are now celebrated by the Palace of Versailles museum

15 May 2026

The artist Jean-Michel Moreau the younger (1741-1814) was employed from the 1780s onwards as a dessinateur des Menus-Plaisirs.

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Previews: issue 2744

15 May 2026

Our selection of lots from nine upcoming auctions

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Pink topaz and diamond brooch sets house record at Perthshire auction

15 May 2026

Perth saleroom Lindsay Burns (22% buyer’s premium) posted a new house record with an exceptional piece of period jewellery at its latest three-day sale.

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Cameo appearance for glyphic art among Salisbury’s jewels

15 May 2026

Interest in glyphic art, that reached its collecting apogee during Grand Tour collecting, is resurgent once more.

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A price to remember – spotlight on mourning

15 May 2026

The grim mortality rate of 17th century Britain precipitated a taste for memento mori jewellery that reached its height of popularity in the early 1700s.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2744

15 May 2026

On Thursday, May 7, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4684.82 / €4005.70 / £3470.24

Still Life – Flowers by Duncan Grant

Duncan Grant still life catches the eye at Modern Made sale

13 May 2026

While a bountiful Cedric Morris still life was the headline lot at Lyon & Turnbull’s (27/26% buyer’s premium) latest Modern Made sale, it wasn’t the only flower painting that drew keen interest at the auction.

Keats' love letters

Keats’ love letters returned to family after theft now come to auction

12 May 2026

A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.

Paysage du Jardin no.2 by Cedric Morris

Blooming marvellous: Cedric Morris flower painting makes it to £180,000 with help of 27 species

08 May 2026

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

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Search for Scandinavian fishing villages also nets unrecorded photo of Oscar Wilde

08 May 2026

A seemingly unrecorded photograph of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde taken during his time at Magdalen College, Oxford, is being offered by a Gloucestershire auction house.

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Antique glass and Islamic astrolabe set records in spring sales

08 May 2026

Two auction records were broken during the London spring series of Islamic and Indian art.

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Pick of the week: Morris makes it to £180,000 with help of 27 species

08 May 2026

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

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Horseracing museum acquires trio of Wootton works

08 May 2026

Three equine portraits by the British artist John Wootton (1682-1764) will be on display at the National Horseracing Museum (NHRM) in Newmarket following an allocation from Arts Council’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

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Hong Kong auctions get off to an auspicious start

08 May 2026

Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s Asian Art Week was led by the earliest extant court painting by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).

Portrait of Henry Pelham

Descendant consigns two prime minister portraits to Essex auction

08 May 2026

Portraits of the third and fourth prime ministers of Great Britain are among the highlights of a fine collection of British portraiture that comes for sale at Sworders on May 19.

St Stephen’s in Hampstead

New fair sprinkles stardust to revive north London scene

08 May 2026

With the demise of Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair and Hampstead Antique & Craft Emporium*, a TV casting director has turned her 20 years of experience organising actors and directors to try to fill the north London art and antiques gap.

Portrait of John Ystumllyn

News in brief including an appeal from the Garden Museum to help secure a rare portrait

08 May 2026

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a fundraising appeal for a portrait of one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain

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Samuel Palmer and printmaking: the other side of his creativity

08 May 2026

Ahead of a new exhibition at a London gallery, Alex Capon takes a closer look at the renowned Romantic artist’s later work and the market that now exists via auction houses and dealerships

Dealer Lee Williams from Cougar Antiques at his stall at an antiques fair

Quirky and eclectic is what the new Cotswolds homeowners want

08 May 2026

Cotswolds fair is "unlike any other fair – there’s a different type of person that comes to this one,” says dealer Ian Slade

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