Print issue 2749 (27 June 2026)

News

• Dealers lose Ivory Act exemption appeals in a ‘laborious and very costly’ process
• BAMF president Browne becomes OBE recipient
• Roman mosaic repurposed to create an 18th century furniture masterpiece
• Bayes blackbird finials fly back to north London estate
• Fifty-seven films with 50 antiques, 40 dealers and five museums: project promotes the history of the trade
• Mengs self-portrait emerges ready for Classic Art London

News Digest

• Pick of the week: Hockney work sells two days after his death
• Fake and fortune: Manuscripts by The Spanish Forger emerge in Dorset
• News in brief including the death of US auctioneer Robert Sterling Brunk
• Bid Barometer: issue 2749
• Precious metals prices: issue 2749

Summer of Art & Antiques 2026

• Introduction: Life’s rich tapestry
• House proud: a commercial and cultural event in the heart of London
• A classic act: festival of exhibitions returns for second staging
• Less is more: the fair with just three works per dealer
• Open season: A selection of 10 dealer exhibitions this summer
• Why Winston Churchill’s paintings have been snubbed by critics but celebrated by the art trade
• Wall to wall coverage: 29 upcoming museum shows
• ‘A place people feel good in': Interview with Bennie Gray on antique market's anniversary
• Interview with Stephan Ludwig: A Forum for change
• Early view: our pick of auction lots on offer this summer

Feature

• POCKET WATCHES: Collectors happy to hunt for auction buys over wide time range
• Ditisheim watch rated first class in ‘time trials’

Art Market

• Cellar finds become best sellers

Books & Works On Paper

• Cartography creates demand as collection of former chancellor comes for sale
• Wilberforce letters stay local after East Yorkshire auction
• Books and works on paper auction calendar, June 23 to July 7, 2026

International

• Family portraits consigned by descent include Mary Jane Peale depiction of an enslaved woman
• Zsolnay owl vase glaze dazes eager bidders
• Montague Dawson breezes in for watercolour record
• St Jerome with Pietro Torrigiano link adored by a US auction bidder
• Indian Katar dagger packs punch at $70,000 hammer price

Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres

• Couple create a real brouhaha
• Vintage fuels your happiness
• Let there be lights at showground
• Slip in to the historic dockyard

Backpage

• Tribunal decision acts as sombre reminder
• London prints gallery can tempt you to make deals on wheels
• Get your Skates on if you want a blooming good show
• Yes, that really is a 26ft shark on the wall
• Oscar Wilde letter bought for a tenner now 10000 hammer
• Letter: Can anyone help me to track down a Fearnley?