Why the John Singer Sargent market remains a trans-Atlantic affair. Artistically and commercially, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is a giant that straddles the Atlantic.

Top stories this week including a rediscovered Old Master emerging in Wimbledon. The most read stories on this website over ...

The height of the summer art season has drawn to a close but there are still plenty of art and antiques exhibitions to view ...

Appeal for lost sweetheart brooch and stolen rings. Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred thi ...

Tyrannosaurus rex specimen takes record $43m at auction. One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered was hammered down at $43m (£32m) at Soth ...

A collection of furniture, silver, works of art, carpets and books from the estate of artist John Singer Sargent’s grand-niece will be offered at Chorley’s on September 15.

Auction offers what is believed to be an account of the conquest of Mount Everest written by Sir Edmund Hillary for The Times. One of the most enduring and as yet unresolved quest ...

Among the museum purchases at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year was a table sold by a Brighton dealer to Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in a deal that has just been announced. The table was made ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...

Ian Towning is an antiques dealer who runs the antiques emporium Bourbon-Hanby, an arcade on the corner of Sydney Street and the King’s Road, Chelsea. He began in the trade in 1979 at the Chelsea ...

Offered at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) sale of British, European & Sporting Art sale on November 15, the painting came to auction from a family collection in the north of England. The family was ...