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NEWS All the latest WHAT’S GOING ON THIS WINTER ANTIQUE news Celebrating events to get antiques and fine art lovers in the festive mood and a look ahead to 2023 Yule be there With a new King at the helm this year’s festive displays at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh promise to be better than ever. Until January 2 visitors to both will be welcomed by resplendent displays, including a 20ft tree in St George’s Hall, grown in nearby Windsor Great Park. Meanwhile, Holyroodhouse will showcase trees in the Throne Room and Great Gallery. Visitors to Windsor Castle on December 8, 9 and 12 can enjoy carols from local choirs in St George’s Hall, while, in Scotland, families visiting the palace on December 17, 22 and 23 can take part in festive arts and crafts activities. Above The Crimson Drawing Room at Windsor Castle will be decorated in its festive best Top right Unidentified woman, attributed to Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460/65–1524), oil on panel, before 1522. Schroder Collection Right A watercolour by the Welsh-based artist Ken Hayes – one of the artists taking part in Direct from the Artist Below Lowry’s Going to the Match has gone on show in Salford MATCH READY A painting by LS Lowry loved by football fans and art enthusiasts has been bought by The Lowry arts centre in Salford, saving it from going into a private collection. The centre paid £7.8m for Going to the Match, painted in 1953, at Christie’s at which it had been expected to fetch £5m-£8m. The Lowry’s chief executive, Julie Fawcett, said: “We believe this iconic artwork must remain on public view, so it can continue to be seen by the broadest possible audiences, for free.” The painting had been on public view at The Lowry for 22 years, after it was bought in 1999 by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) for some £1.9m. 6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING Married love A Bath museum has unveiled plans for a major exhibition considering the role of marriage in European Renaissance art. Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits, takes place at the Holburne Museum from May 26 to October 1, will capture the broader impact of the union from the intimate to the legal joining of two families. In addition to paintings, the exhibition will include objects associated with marriage, including love tokens, rings, gifts, and commemorative tableware, as well as written documents and love letters. DIRECT SALE Art lovers looking for an original work without breaking the bank this Christmas can bag a bargain with a new scheme from eBay. Its ‘direct from the artist’ scheme allows shoppers to buy artworks without paying expensive gallery commissions or artists’ resale rights. EBay’s art and antiques manager, Amy Kent, said: “There is something special about buying a piece of original art directly from the artist. Since the pandemic, we’ve seen a real shift towards consumers wanting to shop from smaller, local businesses through our marketplace and art and antiques are no exception to this.” With prices stretching from £10 and £50, artists taking part in the scheme range from talented hobbyists to graduates from established schools including the University of the Arts London and the Glasgow Art School. As well as benefitting buyers, artists applaud the scheme. Caerphilly-based watercolourist Ken Hayes, said: “I now only sell exclusively on eBay as I’ve had my fill of the greedy high street and online galleries commission rates.” Work by artists taking part in the scheme are distinguished by a blue tick.
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1In the fl e s h A major exhibition on the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) continues at a London gallery until January 28. Showing more than 40 works, Rubens & Women at the Dulwich Picture Gallery will challenge the assumption Rubens painted only one type of woman. Instead it will consider depictions of the women who nourished his creativity and career – from female patrons to intimate depictions of his two wives, Isabella Brant and Helena Fourment, and his eldest daughter, Clara Serena Rubens. 3Soho full house The work of a group of four artists, inspired by a 1963 black-and-white photograph of the quartet, is celebrated at a London exhibition running until the end of January. The exhibition, Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews runs at the Gagosian Grosvenor Hill until January 28, based on a snap of the foursome taken at Wheeler’s restaurant in Soho, London, almost 60 years ago. The 40 works on show include the artists’ portraits of each other, most echoing their intense friendship and, on occasions, rivalry. Michael Andrews’ ambitious group portrait The Colony Room I (1962), depicting the friends’ well-frequented Soho drinking haunt, is on loan from Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Far left Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) The Virgin in Adoration of the Child, c. 1616. KBC Bank, Antwerp, Snijders & Rockox House Left Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Clara Serena Rubens, the Artist’s Daughter, c. 1620-1623. Private Collection Right Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, 17361737, © The National Gallery Below left Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Venus, Mars and Cupid, c.1635, courtesy Dulwich Picture Gallery 3 to see in December & January Far right Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621) A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase on a Ledge with further Flowers, Shells and a Butterfly, 1609-1610, © The National Gallery Above right Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684), Still Life, c. 1664, © The National Gallery Below Lucien Freud, Reflection (self-portrait) (1922-2011) 1981-1982, © The Lucian Freud Archive, Bridgeman 2 Blooming marvellous Flower lovers have until January 15 to visit a Warwickshire exhibition exploring Dutch flower painting from the early 17th to late 18th century. Compton Verney near Kineton is hosting the show of 10 masterpieces of the genre. Dutch Flowers includes nine works on loan from the National Gallery and another from a private collection. At the turn of the 17th century, Netherlandish artists, such as Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621), were among the first of a group of artists producing paintings exclusively depicting flowers, a change sparked by a new societal interest in science, botany and horticulture. Right Left to right; Timothy Behrens, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews, 1963, © John Deakin/ John Deakin Archive/ Bridgeman Images Francis Bacon (1909-1992) Head of a Man (self-portrait), 1960, © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022 lf-portrait), 1960, ) s Bacon. All Rights Reserved, ANTIQUE COLLECTING 7

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NEWS All the latest

WHAT’S GOING ON THIS WINTER

ANTIQUE

news

Celebrating events to get antiques and fine art lovers in the festive mood and a look ahead to 2023

Yule be there With a new King at the helm this year’s festive displays at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh promise to be better than ever. Until January 2 visitors to both will be welcomed by resplendent displays, including a 20ft tree in St George’s Hall, grown in nearby Windsor Great Park. Meanwhile, Holyroodhouse will showcase trees in the Throne Room and Great Gallery. Visitors to Windsor Castle on December 8, 9 and 12 can enjoy carols from local choirs in St George’s Hall, while, in Scotland, families visiting the palace on December 17, 22 and 23 can take part in festive arts and crafts activities.

Above The Crimson Drawing Room at Windsor Castle will be decorated in its festive best

Top right Unidentified woman, attributed to Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460/65–1524), oil on panel, before 1522. Schroder Collection

Right A watercolour by the Welsh-based artist Ken Hayes – one of the artists taking part in Direct from the Artist

Below Lowry’s Going to the Match has gone on show in Salford

MATCH READY A painting by LS Lowry loved by football fans and art enthusiasts has been bought by The Lowry arts centre in Salford, saving it from going into a private collection.

The centre paid £7.8m for Going to the Match, painted in 1953, at Christie’s at which it had been expected to fetch £5m-£8m.

The Lowry’s chief executive, Julie Fawcett, said: “We believe this iconic artwork must remain on public view, so it can continue to be seen by the broadest possible audiences, for free.”

The painting had been on public view at The Lowry for 22 years, after it was bought in 1999 by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) for some £1.9m.

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Married love A Bath museum has unveiled plans for a major exhibition considering the role of marriage in European Renaissance art.

Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits, takes place at the Holburne Museum from May 26 to October 1, will capture the broader impact of the union from the intimate to the legal joining of two families.

In addition to paintings, the exhibition will include objects associated with marriage, including love tokens, rings, gifts, and commemorative tableware, as well as written documents and love letters.

DIRECT SALE Art lovers looking for an original work without breaking the bank this Christmas can bag a bargain with a new scheme from eBay. Its ‘direct from the artist’ scheme allows shoppers to buy artworks without paying expensive gallery commissions or artists’ resale rights.

EBay’s art and antiques manager, Amy Kent, said: “There is something special about buying a piece of original art directly from the artist. Since the pandemic, we’ve seen a real shift towards consumers wanting to shop from smaller, local businesses through our marketplace and art and antiques are no exception to this.”

With prices stretching from £10 and £50, artists taking part in the scheme range from talented hobbyists to graduates from established schools including the University of the Arts London and the Glasgow Art School. As well as benefitting buyers, artists applaud the scheme. Caerphilly-based watercolourist Ken Hayes, said: “I now only sell exclusively on eBay as I’ve had my fill of the greedy high street and online galleries commission rates.” Work by artists taking part in the scheme are distinguished by a blue tick.

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