With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Chinese handscroll generating a bidding contest lasting over an hour and a half ...

Hong Kong auctioneer CC Wang conducted Sotheby’s ‘longest ever bidding battle’ when a calligraphy handscroll by a Yuan ...

After a successful event at the NEC in March, Classic Antique Fairs has put a paused on its summer schedule Classic Antique Fairs has announced the cancellation of the July Fair in the NEC Birmingham, ...

Alexander Rotter has been appointed global president of Christie’s with immediate effect. Rotter has been global chairman of 20 th and 21 st century art at the auction house since 2017 where h… ...

This self-portrait painted by Joseph Wright (1734-97) at the age o… ...

It is perhaps fitting that the shirt belonging to a player who scored two goals successively in the … ...

A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London. Roseberys has given the paintings, originally part of a natural history ...

Among the attractions at this year’s ‘Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair’ on May 15-18 is the desk upon which Hilary Mantel wrote her celebrated ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy. Fold the Corner Books, founded by ...

A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.

An unfinished drawing of the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop drew strong competition at Dorotheum of Vienna this week. Executed in black ink on panel and dated 1504, it had ...

The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was dominated by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). The auction house said works by Mackintosh have "great ...