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NEWS All the latest WHAT’S GOING ON IN NOVEMBER ANTIQUE news Two major works of art are up for sale in London and Paris, while a stolen Martinware bird jug is returned to its owners What’s in store A rare painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), discovered in a storeroom, has gone on show at Windsor Castle. The work, Susanna and the Elders, is regarded as a key addition to Gentileschi’s body of work, shedding light on her time in London in the late 1630s, when she briefly worked alongside her father, Orazio (1563-1639), at the English court. Seven paintings by Artemisia were recorded in Charles I’s inventories but only her self portrait was thought to have survived. Susanna and the Elders had been in store at Hampton Court Palace for more than a century, wrongly attributed as ‘French School’. A CR (Carolus Rex) on the canvas back confirmed the painting was once in Charles I’s collection. Above The new display of paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi in the Queen’s Drawing Room at Windsor Castle Below Henry Moore (1898-1986) Head, 1930, carved in ironstone, 1930, 17.7cm (7in) high, it has an estimate of £2.2m-£2.6m 6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING HEAD’S UP A “vulnerable” female head carved in ironstone by the sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) has an estimate of £2.2m-£2.6m at auction this month. The Independent’s art critic, Mark Hudson, said: “The image of woman in the delicate form of Head (1930) appears more vulnerable than the robust forms of the previous decade. The features appear immersed in some semi-conscious state, sleep or rapture.” Head, which goes under the hammer at Bonhams on November 22, has been exhibited at both UK and international galleries and featured in a major show on Henry Moore at London’s Tate Britain in 2010. Moore was born in a small mining town in Yorkshire, the seventh son of a coal miner. After studying at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, by the 1930s he was among the leading avant-garde sculptors in Europe. He is best known for his monumental bronzes, often inspired by the mother and child.

1Court in the act Portraits from the Tudor court are the subject of an exhibition opening this month at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Made up of more than 100 works from Henry VIII’s court, including drawings, paintings and miniatures by Hans Holbein the Younger, it marks the largest group of the artist’s works from the Royal Collection exhibited in 30 years. Holbein at the Tudor Court, from November 10 to April 14, highlights the artist’s time at court in the first half of the 16th century when he rose to become the most important artist in the country. His portraits allow a modern audience to come face to face with some of the key figures of the era, from Anne Boleyn to Sir Thomas More. 3Light show Monumental light shows of the Georgian era are the subject of a new exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Field, London. At the height of the 18th century, complex light displays, fi r eworks and transparencies were important aspects of the era’s popular entertainment. The exhibition include two never-seen linen transparencies created as part of a UK-wide “illumination night” to celebrate Napoleon’s defeat in 1814. To mark the victory back-lit transparencies were displayed in the windows of public buildings and principal houses across London and other cities. Th e display also showcases Soane’s plans for illuminating the Bank of England to mark the recovery of George III from illness in 1789. Georgian Illuminations runs until January 1. Left Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) Sir Henry Guildford, 1527, Royal Collection Trust/ © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023 Right Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) Green Man (Blue), 1992. Dorset Museum collection. Artist © Kindly approved by Tully and Bree Jammet Below left Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) John Godsalve, c.1543?, Royal Collection Trust/ © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023 Left Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) Anne Boleyn,1532–1536, Royal Collection Trust/ © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023 to see in November 3 Above far right Elisabeth Frink, 1985, © Anthony Marshall, courtesy of Dorset History Centre Above right Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) Standing Horse, 1993. Dorset Museum collection. Artist © Kindly approved by Tully and Bree Jammet 2 Think Frink The first exhibition dedicated to Elisabeth Frink’s (1930-1993) time in Dorset opens at a museum in the county in December. Opening 30 years after her death, the exhibition, Works in A View from Within at Dorset Museum from December 1 to April 21, showcases more than 80 sculptures, drawings and prints, many of which were created at her Woolland studio in Dorset between 1976 and 1993. Frink was well known for her fascination with horses and the spiritual properties they possessed. One her last sculptures Standing Horse (1993), finished at Woolland just weeks before her death from cancer, will be included in the exhibition which also includes a recreation of the studio itself. Above Unknown Artist, A View of the Temple of Concord, Created in the Green Park, to Celebrate the Glorious Peace of 1814, collection of Melanie Doderer-Winkler Below Robert Pollard (1755–1838) engraver, after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), Vauxhall, aquatint, c.1786 Above John Heaviside Clark (1771-1863) The Chinese Bridge Illuminated, Royal Collection Trust/ © His Majesty King Charles III, 2023 ANTIQUE COLLECTING 7

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NEWS All the latest

WHAT’S GOING ON IN NOVEMBER

ANTIQUE

news

Two major works of art are up for sale in London and Paris, while a stolen Martinware bird jug is returned to its owners

What’s in store A rare painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), discovered in a storeroom, has gone on show at Windsor Castle.

The work, Susanna and the Elders, is regarded as a key addition to Gentileschi’s body of work, shedding light on her time in London in the late 1630s, when she briefly worked alongside her father, Orazio (1563-1639), at the English court.

Seven paintings by Artemisia were recorded in Charles I’s inventories but only her self portrait was thought to have survived. Susanna and the Elders had been in store at Hampton Court Palace for more than a century, wrongly attributed as ‘French School’. A CR (Carolus Rex) on the canvas back confirmed the painting was once in Charles I’s collection.

Above The new display of paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia and Orazio Gentileschi in the Queen’s Drawing Room at Windsor Castle

Below Henry Moore (1898-1986) Head, 1930, carved in ironstone, 1930, 17.7cm (7in) high, it has an estimate of £2.2m-£2.6m

6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING

HEAD’S UP A “vulnerable” female head carved in ironstone by the sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) has an estimate of £2.2m-£2.6m at auction this month.

The Independent’s art critic, Mark Hudson, said: “The image of woman in the delicate form of Head (1930) appears more vulnerable than the robust forms of the previous decade. The features appear immersed in some semi-conscious state, sleep or rapture.”

Head, which goes under the hammer at

Bonhams on November 22, has been exhibited at both UK and international galleries and featured in a major show on Henry Moore at London’s Tate

Britain in 2010.

Moore was born in a small mining town in Yorkshire, the seventh son of a coal miner. After studying at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, by the 1930s he was among the leading avant-garde sculptors in Europe. He is best known for his monumental bronzes, often inspired by the mother and child.

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