19th-century illustrations of the year 2000
Fascinating and mad-cap illustrations depicting the year 2000 as seen in 1899, look set to generate interest in a Staffordshire
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Art
Charles Dickens portrait returns home
A miniature watercolour ‘lost portrait’ of Victorian author Charles Dickens has been saved for the nation after it was acquired
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William Morris Gallery crowdfunding Bauhaus exhibition
The William Morris Gallery in London is hoping to raise funds through public crowdfunding to hold a landmark exhibition exploring
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Pilot’s Rolex Daytona flies in Yorkshire salesroom
A Rolex Daytona wrist watch presented to a pilot by the Sultan of Oman was the top lot in a
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Portrait of leading abolitionist in Gloucestershire sale
A rare portrait of one of the UK’s leading abolitionists is set to be sold in a Gloucestershire auction with
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Edward Lear watercolour leads Oxford sale
A watercolour by the Victorian era creator of popular limericks and poetry, Edward Lear, is to go under the hammer
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Kyffin Williams painting leads Yorkshire sale
An oil painting by celebrated late Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams was the top lot in a North Yorkshire sale
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Newlyn School artist in Dorset sale
A watercolour drawing by Walter Langley, the English painter and one of the founders of the Newlyn School of plein
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John Constable landscape makes ten times estimate
A rediscovered landscape by the greatest English landscape painter, John Constable (1776-1837) has sold for £87,500, more than 10 times
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