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Hamptons Fine Art Auctioneers have become the latest regional auction business to join The Fine Art Auction Group, parent company of Dreweatt Neate Fine Art and Neales of Nottingham.

A massive gulf exists between the very best quality Meiji period (1868-1912) works and the rest.

What makes a painting totally uncommercial one year and a sure-fire seller the next?Clearly, if there was a general principal of financial success to be learned in the art market there would be rather more dealers appearing in the media’s annual rich lists than there are now.

The Fine Art Auction Group have raised their buyer’s premium across their network of provincial salerooms.

BACK in London, until February 12, Mayfair purveyors of ethnographic and tribal items, the Gordon Reece Gallery, hold a sale of their current stock of antique rugs at their gallery at 16 Clifford Street, London W1. Rugs are offered at half price and, in true High Street clearance style, will be replaced daily “while stocks last”.

By and large the Cumbrian antiques trade were counting their blessings last week after escaping the worst of the floods that engulfed the region.

The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum have added two paintings by Joseph Southall (1861-1944) to their internationally recognised collection of British Arts & Crafts.