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A rare picture painted in India by Arthur William Devis (1762-1822) depicting a group of Bengali weavers was the subject of dramatic competition at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) spring fine art and antiques sale.

Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction.

Further high-ticket sales from this year’s TEFAF Maastricht have been announced.

A new boutique art fair launches in London this spring.

A group of portraits from the collection of the 3rd Earl of Liverpool, Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson (1784-1851), will be offered at Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s next month.

A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.

Global online sales of art and antiques increased 7% year-on-year in 2023, despite the market overall decreasing by 4%, according to latest Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report.

A self-portrait by Sarah Biffin (c.1784-1850) has been acquired by the Museum of Somerset where it is now on display.

Following an extraordinary 20 minutes of bidding, a pair of Chinese vases now hold the house record at Portsmouth auction house Nesbits.

The Treasure House Fair is getting a boost in size this summer as exhibitor numbers and square meterage both increase.

Two portraits of Regency beauties by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) come for sale at Cottone Auctions in Geneso, New York, on March 20. Both come by descent from by the Buffalo industrialist Colonel Charles Clifton (1853-1928) who paid huge sums for them in the early 1920s.

US museums were back buying at TEFAF Maastricht this year, with a flurry of sales taking place in the opening hours of the 37th staging of the international event.

A watercolour by JMW Turner (1775-1851) depicting a famous English country estate has sold for £96,000 at Minster Auctions.

A fakes and forgeries seminar at Goldsmiths’ Hall is returning after a five-year hiatus as concerns emerge of a rise in Paul de Lamerie forgeries.