Dealers

Dealers come in all shapes and forms, from small sole-traders to powerhouse galleries. Both play an integral role in the art and antiques market.

They often specialise in a given fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but there are also plenty of general dealers operating across different categories.

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Eye on an object: 1920s Egyptian sarcophagus charm

29 January 2024

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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Taking giant steps: fleamarket launches at Olympic Park

29 January 2024

A new fair at The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park called the Giant London Flea Market launches on February 18.

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London Art Week dates announced

27 January 2024

This year’s programme includes a change for the organisation’s spring education week.

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Early sales boost Belgium art fair BRAFA

26 January 2024

Several dealers got off the mark in the early hours of BRAFA, which opened yesterday at Brussels Expo.

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Boss of failed firm Trinity House Paintings ‘delays admin process’

22 January 2024

Steven Beale, former director of the failed Cotswold art dealership Trinity House Paintings, has not cooperated with the administrators causing “significant time costs” and delays, according to their latest report.

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Haddon powers on with 60 dealers booked for Essex event

22 January 2024

For Emma and Steve Cooper of Haddon Events, their calendar is a whirlwind of events in Essex, Hertfordshire and Greater London including antiques and vintage fairs, vintage fashion fairs, classic car and country shows and a community street event.

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B2B timeline: the basic essentials

22 January 2024

With Helen and Alan Yourston handing on their Malvern events, we take a look back at the story so far

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Eye on an object: Victorian stained glass window

22 January 2024

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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Five questions with Joseph Sullivan of Textile Antiques

22 January 2024

Joseph Sullivan of Textile Antiques is one of the exhibitors at the London Antiques Run & Textile Art Fair running this week (January 23-28) at Evolution London, Battersea.

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Dealer news in brief including details of America's largest ephemera event

22 January 2024

A roundup of news and events from around the trade

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ATG letter: My bedtime story of saving dealer Dick Turpin from a pipe mishap

22 January 2024

Sworders’ advertisement (ATG No 2625) for the forthcoming sale of furniture and objects from the late Dick Turpin recalls an anecdote which may amuse.

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Hanley out of the mist at Portland Gallery show

22 January 2024

'Misty Landscape' (1987) is a characteristic work by British artist Liam Hanley (1933-2019) and one of the highlights in his retrospective at Portland Gallery next month.

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De Glehn revisited as a 30-year journey rolls on

22 January 2024

London gallery holds dedicated show decades after first championing the artist

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Massive Churchill collection including his desk, unpublished letters and inscribed books star in offering of London dealer

19 January 2024

A collection devoted to the life and work of Winston Churchill is among the standout items at The Winter Show in New York, which opens today.

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Salvage Hunters' TV star Drew Pritchard is selling his personal collection at auction

17 January 2024

TV presenter and antiques dealer Drew Pritchard is to sell items from his personal collection at Dreweatts in March.

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New Stanley Gibbons and Baldwin’s set-up announced after rescue

15 January 2024

Strand Collectibles Group, the parent company for stamp specialist Stanley Gibbons and coin specialist Baldwin’s, has announced a new structure.

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New ownership for B2B Events’ Malvern showground events

15 January 2024

B2B Events has handed over the running of its fairs held at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern to a newly formed company, B2B Fairs, owned by Debra Scadding and Sue McIntosh.

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Three London fairs to visit on the same day

15 January 2024

London will be thick with trade and private buyers attending the Decorative Antiques & Textile Art Fair and the London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair, both held in the same Battersea Park venue during the week of this month ending on Sunday, January 28.

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Snow fails to put off punters at the Pavilion Gardens

15 January 2024

Fairs may be hit by snow and other weather hazards but stallholders and intrepid buyers try to carry on regardless.

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Fresh start for Master Drawings New York fair

15 January 2024

This month Master Drawings New York (MDNY) has its first run under new ownership.

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