LONDON.- A Scottish sundial boss discovered half-buried in the ground in Herfordshire, England, and then used by the owner to grow strawberries, is expected to realise between £7,000 and £10,000 when it is auctioned as part of Christie’s Travel,…
Dutch Collectors’s 30,000 Toy Soldiers to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A vast collection of 30,000 toy soldiers accumulated by Dutch collector, Gijs Scholtens, is to be sold at Bonhams, Knowle, as part of its auction of Toys, Dolls and Soldiers on 5 April 2011. Echoing the historic journey of Stadtholder William …
Tate Britain is Changing: First Phase of Major Building Project Starts this Autumn
LONDON (REUTERS).- The national home of British art from the 16th century to the modern age has embarked on a major revamp of its galleries starting in 2011. Tate Britain — which houses works stretching from portraits of England’s Queen Elizabeth I to…
Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale
TORONTO.- A stunning watercolour of Canadian Indian totems sold at Bonhams in Toronto last night (29.11.10)for $78,000 (Canadian dollars), completing a huge roundtrip that took the picture painted in Western Canada to the West Country in England, and t…
Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale
TORONTO.- A stunning watercolour of Canadian Indian totems sold at Bonhams in Toronto last night (29.11.10)for $78,000 (Canadian dollars), completing a huge roundtrip that took the picture painted in Western Canada to the West Country in England, and t…
Century-Old Tower in Massachusetts Marks Mayflower’s First Landing
PROVINCETOWN, MA (AP).- Quick, name the landmark in Massachusetts that marks the spot where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World. Plymouth Rock? Try again. Soaring more than 250 feet above picturesque Provincetown Harbor at the very tip of Cape C…
Century-Old Tower in Massachusetts Marks Mayflower’s First Landing
PROVINCETOWN, MA (AP).- Quick, name the landmark in Massachusetts that marks the spot where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World. Plymouth Rock? Try again. Soaring more than 250 feet above picturesque Provincetown Harbor at the very tip of Cape C…
Lord Chesterfield’s Panelling Highlighted At The Bowes Museum
COUNTY DURHAM.- One of the treasures of The Bowes Museum’s sequence of period room panelling will be highlighted as the Object of the Month for August. Every Thursday at 2.30 curator Howard Coutts will reveal the story behind a segment of panellin…
Charles Martin Joins Bonhams as a Consultant in Kent & Sussex
LONDON.- This week Bonhams announced that Charles Martin will return to the company after some years, to work as a business getter and consultant in the South East, based at Sevenoaks. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO Europe and the Middle East, commenting…
UK Appeal to Secure First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery today launches,
with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Art Fund, an
appeal
to acquire for the nation the earliest known British oil painting of a
freed
slave, and the first portrait…