Auctioneers

Auction house Christie’s went ahead with its sales as planned despite suffering a ‘technology security incident’ that brought down its website.

Dawsons Auctioneers has appointed Jonathan Pratt as managing director.

Although the image may be familiar from stereoscopic photographs and engravings of the period, this view of the 1862 'London International Exhibition of Industry and Art' is an oil and canvas by the Italian painter Federico Moja (1802-85).

News that Celtic and Rangers no longer automatically qualify for the Champions League next season put a bit of a dampener on Scottish football.

Focus on first part of a series of porcelain sales offering businessman’s collection

Sports stars are always looking for small incremental improvements in performance that can prove crucial to the result.

Archive sold in Somerset and bugle offered in Dorset reflect the first organised cycling clubs

February saw the sad death of Bruce Fearn, FRICS, FSVA and former head of Neales Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers in Nottingham and Derby.

Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.

Despite Peter Barkworth’s very public profile his art collecting was a much more personal matter

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of George Stubbs' 'Mares and Foals' being offered at auction with a £7m-10m estimate.

Congratulations to Golding Young director Kirsty Young who has passed her professional assessment at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). After four years of study, she is now a chartered auctioneer and valuer.

Stand-out lots from upcoming sales including Chardin still-life, Napoleonic marshal's baton and fine art collection acquired over decades

Cristian Beadman, chairman of Exeter auction house Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood and valuer on 'Antiques Roadshow', abseiled down the north tower of the city’s cathedral on May 4 as part of a fundraiser for a new cloister gallery.

The Science, Medicine & Early Technology auction at Flints (25% buyer’s premium) in Thatcham, Berkshire on May 1 was led by a complete seven-volume set of The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain by James Sowerby (1757-1822).

Cryptoryptomentyces et Cryptographiae has been described as ‘arguably the most complete tome on esoteric cryptography ever published’, an esoteric claim to fame in itself.

A football programme for for the Estudiantes de la Plata v Manchester United Intercontinental Cup final on September 25, 1968, hammered down at a top-estimate £10,000 in Shropshire.

Owen Simmons was a bit of a bread fan, it is fair to say. A lecturer at the National Bakery School in London, he produced the lavish book shown here.

Manuscript ‘sold in 1776’ at forerunner of Sotheby’s emerges in New York sale