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A letter of justification by the woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat has been bought by a group of Normandy institutions at auction.

National Museums NI has bought Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841-1919) L’allée au bois via the government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme for the Ulster Museum.

With estimates from £2000, here are five previews of upcoming items.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included a picture by an almost unheard of artist.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare print of one of the first British tennis tournaments that took more than 26-times estimate at auction.

A John Constable drawing of St Botolph’s Priory is to return ‘home’ after Friends of Colchester Museums purchased it from a client of auction house Roseberys.

A rare opportunity has come up to bid for a Fra Angelico work, a c.1419-24 panel rediscovered in 1996.