The LAPADA offering may be smaller than in previous years, but promises excellent quality and, with antiques returning en vogue , there is hope for the future

After early profligate years in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Francis Grant traded sporting scenes for portraits and climbed the ladder to become president of the Royal Academy. A forthcoming exhibition at Dickinson does justice to his drawing

Rufus Bird says rumours of a market decline are overstated

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

There was no shortage of glitz and glamour at last month’s sale of the late Countess of Airlie’s jewellery, but an exquisite tiara shone the brightest

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t