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A round-up of news and events from around the trade.

Contemporary African art was a topic of discussion at last month’s The Art Business Conference in London.

Extensive group of lots from well-known book dealer and his wife led London auction

William Gear (1915-97) is among the Modern Scottish artists whose work regularly appears at auction.

One of the highlights at the timed online of Modern and Contemporary Art Auction at Halls of Shrewsbury, which closes on May 2, is a large painting of sunflowers by John Bratby (1928-92).

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Paul Fitzsimmons of Marhamchurch Antiques specialises in early English furniture and works of art pre- 1700, with a focus on 1500-1650.

A 19th century French bronze of a woman in a hat was among the highlight sales at the recent Art & Antiques for Everyone fair at Birmingham’s NEC.

A previously unrecorded family archive relating to Richard Grindall (1751-1820), an able seaman aboard Cook’s Second Voyage, surfaced for sale in London last week with spectacular results.

Several dealerships have completed sales to institutions after the winter showing of London Art Week (LAW).

The master wood carver and furniture maker copied out missing Bible pages when aged just 13.

York vintage event returns as first to be staged for three years

The Modern British Art sale at Woolley & Wallis on May 31 offers family photographs that come by descent from the war poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).

Toadstones are understood to be the button-like palatal teeth of lepidotes, an extinct genus of ray finned fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

The story of the Poniatowski gems provided one of the great art scandals of its day.

The 19th & 20th Century Photography sale at Dominic Winter on May 18 includes several works by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).