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English Heritage has bought a Dutch Golden Age painting that had previously been on loan to one of its properties in South Yorkshire.

The art event and gallery exhibition initiative London Art Week has launched its sixth edition of its Art History in Focus series of talks and events.

Angelica Kauffman’s Penelope and Euriclea has been bought at auction by Stourhead, the National Trust’s Wiltshire stately home, and will go back on display at the property for the first time since the mid-19th century.

With estimates from £600, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Christie’s sale of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ extraordinary library of modern first editions.

Police in Suffolk have appealed for help to trace antique jewellery stolen from a shop in Beccles.

A pair of ‘prime location’ Venetian scenes by the great Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768), will lead Christie’s Old Master sale in London on December 7.