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The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included the results of an 18-month research project into a rare 17th century painting of black and white women.

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

Christie’s latest evening sale of Modern British and Irish Art got off to a flying start. The first lot, Gwen John’s (1876-1939) Girl in a Blue Dress attracted spirited bidding against a £12… ...

A group of Banksy prints, stencils, sketches, handwritten notes and personal artefacts is being auctioned by the artist’s former agent Steve Lazarides.

Count Manfredi della Gherardesca was known as one of the most colourful and culturally erudite figures in the global art scene. Ceramics were just one of his passions.

The Irish musician’s guitar collection, including his famous Fender Stratocaster, appeared at Bonhams on October 17 ...

The collection of London dealers Alan and Mary Hobart, who founded the Pyms Gallery in the 1970s, has been consigned to Christie’s. The 198 lots feature many of the artists in whom they specialised, ...

Gurr Johns, the art advisor that owns UK auction house Dreweatts, has opened an office in Paris. The firm, which describes ...

The Worcester factory was founded at Warmstry House in 1751 by a deed of partnership with 15 members. The period from foundation to 1783, when it was acquired by Thomas Flight, is known as the First ...

The glut of auctions held during the week-long period of the ‘Frieze London’ and ‘Frieze Masters’ fairs generated an overall £184m including premium, roughly in line with the total from the equivalent ...