Walter Sickert – guide to buying prints
The first major retrospective in 30 years on Walter Sickert (1860–1942), one of the most influential painters of the 20th century, is
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Guide to Art
Alfred Wallis – the ultimate guide
Explore the mystical works of outsider maritime artist Alfred Wallis
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Guide to Winter Landscapes in Art
From Pieter Bruegel the Elder to the 21st century, artists have been drawn to the magical properties of snow. Gallerist Martin Heaps considers
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Visiting Charleston – rural home of the Bloomsbury Group
With its bucolic setting in the rolling heart of the South Downs, where tumbledown barns sit amid the colour of a fecund English
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London Art Week offers full programme
This Winter’s London Art Week from December 3-10 celebrates 40 exciting in-gallery and auction house exhibitions featuring works of art from ancient
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Christina Trevanion discovers a rare 17th-century painting
Christina Trevanion discovers a 17th-century painting with a remarkable history and important future There are moments in an auctioneer’s life that ‘stick’ and, recently,
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Guide to Collecting Chinese Jade
In 551-479 BCE Confucius wrote that jade was ‘soft, smooth and glossy, it appeared to them like benevolence; fine, compact
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The Ultimate Lockdown Antiques and Art Guide
With millions of antique and art lovers staying safe by self-isolating around the world, it’s proving difficult for them to
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Guide to collecting miniature portraits
With the National Portrait Gallery’s ongoing exhibition of the work of Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c.1565-1617), collecting miniatures
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Guide to 20th-century Chinese Ink Paintings
There are many 20th-century Chinese paintings circulating in the UK and beyond, but the difficulty lies in distinguishing those worth tens of thousands of
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