14 December 2021
The organising team behind the Winter Show has worked strenuously and successfully since the last fair to maintain enthusiasm for this year’s event. Sadly, the fair has now been postponed until March. A series of online panel discussions in advance... Read More...
25 February 2021
13 September 2020
This note appeared as part of a series of ‘interviews’, conducted by Laura Beach, at the end of a front page article celebrating ‘The Liverants of Colchester: Thoughts on Turning One Hundred’ published in Antiques and the Arts Weekly, 18 September…
Read More...12 July 2020
The organisers of Masterpiece rose to the challenge of keeping this year’s cancelled fair alive through a much admired online programme. If you missed it during the fair, you might enjoy these entertaining anecdotes from four leading dealers in ceramics,…
Read More...17 April 2020
2020 will be a year we shall never forget. As I write from the relative comfort of my home, it is impossible not to reflect on the millions so less well placed to cope with this pandemic, even in the…
Read More...20 February 2020
For three generations, H. Blairman & Sons has enjoyed a reputation for Regency design. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the Prince Regent’s accession as George IV, we are devoting a substantial part of our stand at TEFAF, Maastricht…
Read More...6 December 2019
15, Queen Anne’s Gate is a distinguished early eighteenth-century house in one of London’s most charming streets, to the south of St James’s Park and just a short walk from Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. The house was…
Read More...17 June 2019
Nearly five years ago, the Society of Antiquaries of London organised a small fund-raining auction to kick-start an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund to secure the future of Kelmscott Manor, William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’. Last November, the Society…
Read More...6 June 2019
It is with pleasure that we are, once again, exhibiting at Masterpiece, London. The elegant architecture of Sir Christopher Wren’s late seventeenth-century Royal Hospital forms an appropriate backdrop for a fair that brings a rich and varied display of works…
Read More...20 April 2019
Walter Morrison, the ninth (of eleven) children born to James Morrison (1789-1857) and his wife Mary (1795-1887) was just twenty-one when his father died leaving him £300,000 (a fortune that today would be the equivalent of £28m) and the Malham…
Read More...11 March 2019
We have been flattered and delighted by the response of our colleagues to this year’s presentation. But none of this would have been possible with out our team: K-Pak for transport and Nicky Aubury and colleagues for creating a more…
Read More...16 January 2019
During the day on Tuesday, the team made light work of turning tool boxes, lighting tracks and crates containing furniture and works of art into an elegantly decorated black box. One day, perhaps, I’ll arrive on a stand believing that…
Read More...8 December 2018
Benin bronze on display at the British Museum [Credit: Son of Groucho/Flickr] On the big global issues, 2018 is drawing to an uncomfortable close. And on undoubtedly more parochial matters, of cultural significance, the zeitgeist seems to be driving us…
Read More...30 September 2018
London is the next stop for the the international art market circus, with big tops for PAD in Berkeley Square, and for Frieze Masters and Frieze in Regent’s Park. As ever, October in London is the place to be. Our…
Read More...25 June 2018
However well we plan in advance, it is always daunting to arrive in a half-built hall, surrounded by machinery, pots of paint and lengths of uncut timber, all of which need to be negotiated by precious works of art. As…
Read More...25 March 2018
Queen Mother Pendant Mask, Nigeria (Benin), Edo peoples, 16th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Nelson D. Rockefeller, 1972. On 22 March, the Courtauld Institute, London hosted a debate on how we should consider historic works of art…
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