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John Wayne's signet ring is among five lots to watch

11 May 2026

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

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Top stories this week including Sotheby’s auctioning ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’

10 May 2026

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s announcing the sale of works from the Lewis collection this summer.

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.

Art Deco bracelet

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including an Art Deco articulated bracelet

08 May 2026

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

Portrait of John Ystumllyn

Garden Museum launches fundraising plea to buy portrait of one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain

07 May 2026

Lambeth’s Garden Museum is hoping to raise £420,000 to purchase a portrait of the gardener and plantsman John Ystumllyn (1736-86/88), one of the earliest recorded black gardeners in Britain.

On Mendip by Alfred Parsons

Major record for Alfred Parsons as view of the Somerset hills flies over estimate

07 May 2026

Alfred Parsons (1847-1920) is generally considered a solidly collectable Victorian-Edwardian artist but has never been in the same league as the major masters of the age, at least in terms of auction prices.

Oscar Wilde photograph

Unrecorded photograph of Oscar Wilde discovered at Gloucestershire auction

06 May 2026

A seemingly unrecorded photograph of the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde taken during his time at Magdalen College, Oxford has been found by Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter.