AMSTERDAM (AP).- Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum nears completion. A sneak preview showed the 19th-century …
LONDON.- Three items in Bonhams Chester sale on July 5th recall Welsh Eisteddfod triumphs from almost two centuries ago. Lot 354 is a George IV presentation silver mounted Hirlas Horn made by Emes & Barnard, London 1828. The polished Longhorn carries a…
OGDENSBURG, N.Y. (AP).- Police in northern New York have recovered a stolen engagement ring given by artist Frederic Remington to his fiancee more than a century ago. Police in Ogdensburg arrested 24-year-old Blake R. Peabody on a grand larceny charge …
ST. LOUIS, MO.- This summer the Saint Louis Art Museum will begin a unique and ambitious conservation project to restore a historic treasure of local significance. Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississip…
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of t…
SEOUL (AP).- South Korea celebrated the return of nearly 300 royal books looted by French soldiers in the 19th century with solemn ceremonies Saturday bringing alive the color and pageantry of a bygone royal age. Bearers dressed in bright red costumes…
Storrs, CT.- The Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut is currently showing “The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka” until August 7th. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a s…
LONDON.- The 2011 London Map Fair, taking place in the historic surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society, is the most established and largest antiquarian map fair in Europe: over forty of the leading national and international specialist map deal…
