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Dorset

On the scent of Emms - sporting scene hunted out at auction
16 September 2019It was while working as a studio assistant to Lord Leighton in the early 1860s that John Emms (1841-1912) travelled to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, a trip that would define his career as a painter of dog portraits and sporting scenes.

Fashionable woman is all the rage at auction
02 September 2019Estimated at £100-150, this mid-20th century portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman attracted a flurry of bids at Sherborne saleroom Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium).

Prolific painter pair appears in Dorset saleroom
12 August 2019Landscape painter Sidney Richard Percy (1821-86) is described in Christopher Wood’s Dictionary of Victorian Painters as “a prolific and variable painter, and his prices vary accordingly”.

Pick of the week: ‘Blonde bombshell’ poster makes big impact at auction
22 July 2019A controversial Second World War poster by renowned designer Abram Games (1914-96) has sold for what is believed to be an auction record.

Classic wartime posters impress in Dorset auction including a probable Abram Games record price
18 July 2019A poster which is one of the most famous worldwide is also one of the rarest: just six copies of the British First World War design showing a fierce Kitchener pointing at YOU are known to exist.

Complete set of classic Art Deco-style vintage travel posters by Tom Purvis for sale at auction for the first time
27 June 2019A rare opportunity to buy a whole set of one of the most popular Art Deco-style travel posters ever produced is coming up at auction on July 12.

Elisabeth Frink maquette flies to five figures
27 May 2019Inside Manchester Airport stands a sculpture dedicated to John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two aviators who made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.

The elusive earlier John Frederick Lewis
27 May 2019While the 19th century English painter John Frederick Lewis (1805-76) is chiefly remembered for his major Orientalist creations – several of which have sold for more than £1m at auction – much less is known about his early career.

Exceptional farmhouse table brings excellent price
27 May 2019Catalogued as ‘exceptional’, this farmhouse refectory table fulfilled the auctioneer’s adjective in more than one way at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Dorchester on April 26.

Salerooms aim to create a home from home when dispersing traditional country house contents
13 May 2019With ‘on the premises’ country house contents sales now so rare, the more usual practice is for the better pieces to be removed to saleroom bases.

Early Chelsea porcelain continues to attract bidders
06 May 2019A matched pair of Chelsea mugs cropped up in an Andrew Smith’s (21% buyer’s premium) sale in Hampshire.

Wanli altar vase heads to Duke’s
06 May 2019Duke’s Asian sale on May 20 includes this Wanli (1572-1620) mark and period wucai ‘zun’ altar vase.

Dorchester saleroom Duke's to hold ‘biggest house contents auction’ in the regions for a decade
15 April 2019Duke’s of Dorchester has announced what promises to be the biggest house contents sale of the year and the largest by a UK regional auction house for more than a decade.

“An absolute belter” – ‘Anglo-German’ George I bookcase bid to £120,000
11 April 2019An extraordinary George I burr walnut bureau bookcase was bought for £120,000 when Duke’s of Dorchester sold the contents of Moigne Combe on April 10.

Snaring the Scharnhorst
08 April 2019Once the Tirpitz had been damaged by midget submarines (see main story this section), the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was left to tackle British convoys to Russia alone. A trap was set by the Royal Navy in December 1943.

5 Questions: Patrick Macintosh
11 March 2019Patrick Macintosh deals in English country house antiques from the 17th-20th centuries with an emphasis on quirky furniture. He is based in Sherborne, Dorset, and exhibits at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea with fellow dealer Richard Nadin.

Winter auction greeted with warm response
04 March 2019The plethora of single-collection sales at the start of the year was not at the expense of old-fashioned auctions offering good-quality offerings across the range of dealing and collecting – such as the Winter Fine Arts sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) of Dorchester.

De Wint depicts the city of York
11 February 2019Rare work by artist best known for his Lincolnshire views is a highlight of Dorset sale.

Mystery sitter in a bow tie
04 February 2019This inter-war ‘English school’ portrait of a seated gentleman wearing a bow tie, bought for around £150 three decades ago, sold for an unexpected £7600 at Charterhouse (21% buyer’s premium) on January 17. The unfinished 4ft 2in x 3ft 4in (1.27 x 1.01m) oil was dated 1922 but unsigned.

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