Works by the multi-faceted Scottish wood-engraver, book illustrator, painter and teacher Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) come to the market only occasionally, and when they do emerge they are almost ...

Art and antiques saleroom Truro Auction Centre has been put up for sale as a going concern after 35 years in business. Martyn Rowe, the owner and auctioneer of the firm in Redruth, plans to take a ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

Are you an ATG digital subscriber? If so, you can download the app and access the weekly editions of the newspaper for free – allowing you to read ATG on the move with a smartphone and tablet. Once ...

The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...

A dealer and estate agents are to open an auction house in Cheshire in the new year. Founded by an antiques dealer with auction house experience, his family, and two estate agents, the … ...

The PBFA has announced that the three new rare book fairs it launched earlier this year will continue next year as part of a full calendar of events. Fairs at Kirkby Lonsdale, Frome and Dorchester ...

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Oxfordshire auction house Mallams has hired Edmund Saddington its new Modern Art & Desi… ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

A rare copy of one of Rembrandt’s greatest portrait etchings established a new saleroom high for an Old Master print. Arnout Tholinx, Inspector is not the most famous work in Rembrandt’s printed ...