Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

A pocket watch by a watchmaker who was murdered in a highway robbery in 1853 sold at triple its estimate at TW Gaze in Diss, Norfolk Lorenz Beha was a German watchmaker and silversmith living in ...

An intimate work by Irish artist Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) has sold for £360,000 at Sworders.

The personal collection of notes, research, transcripts and photographs belonging to former BBC sports commentator David Coleman (1926-2013) appeared at a recent sale held by RWB Auctions in Royal ...

One of the great English historic country houses, Temple Newsam was originally built by Thomas Lord … ...

Modern names were among the major sellers at the recent staging of Frieze Los Angeles.

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A major consignment of Old Masters is coming up at Sotheby’s New York in May which the saleroom said is poised to break the ...

Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who's enjoying a fevered revival, but the cheering comeback is tarnished by a raft of missing work. The artist and his advisors have put up a reward of ...

A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis. The work by ...

A 1963 first UK issue of The Amazing Spider-Man comic – the first to solely focus on the superhero – appeared at a recent auction at Ewbank’s. The comic, written by Stan Lee with art by Jack Kirby and ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a key work by the renowned studio potter Hans Coper (1920-81) being found in a back garden and now being offered at Chiswick ...