Law, crime and regulation

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is to return a bronze head from its antiquities collection to Turkey.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a sculpture to Iraq following provenance research.

A painting by French Impressionist painter Eva Gonzalès has been acquired by The National Gallery via a private treaty sale from a British collection for a “tax-advantageous price” of £1.49m.

Delegates attending the latest Goldsmiths’ Company London Assay Office seminar on April 12 were warned to be alert for faked objects purporting to be by the preeminent 18th century Huguenot silversmith Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751).

A painting belonging to a Jewish family who were forced to flea Germany under the Nazi’s has been returned to the family’s remaining heir with the help of The Art Loss Register.

Two thugs armed with hammers targeted Bourbon Hanby Antiques Arcade and smashed cabinets and attacked three people.

A self-portrait by artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) has been acquired by Watts Gallery in Compton, near Guildford.

A change to Artist's Resale Right in the UK means the levy will now be calculated in pounds rather than euros.

Valuable silver and jewellery lost after smash-and-grab in Cheshire

The National Gallery has acquired 'Eucharist' (c.1637-40), a depiction of the Last Supper, by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1664).

A man who broke into the Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum in Nottinghamshire has been jailed.

The owner of an 19th century Ethiopian shield has decided to withdraw it from auction at Anderson & Garland.