Under the tuscan sun

Arezzo, Italy While most travellers head to Florence when visiting Tuscany, for antiques it’s worth seeking out the city of Arezzo to the south-east. It’s replete with museums and historical monuments

The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar

Rufus Bird considers whether the market is up or down

Canny collectors should swoop in when an artist falls out of fashion–but always pay attention to quality, because even the greatest names, such as Picasso, made the odd pot-boiler

Northern Ireland 30th Ormeau Road Antique, Art, Vintage, Retro & Collectables Fair, Cooke Church, 216 Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 2FY. waringfield.com North & Scotland 16th-17th The Great North Decorati