Antiques Trade Gazette 25-12-19

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19 December 2025
Friday briefing for buyers and sellers of art & antiques

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News
Annual totals: Auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s reveal turnover figures for 2025
The latest results released by Sotheby's and Christie's showed that, after a slower start to the year, business rapidly picked up in the second half. READ MORE

Art Market
Leonard Squirrell: Views of Framlingham bring exceptional prices for Suffolk artist
Location, location, location. Just as with property, so with the pictures of Suffolk’s own Leonard Russell Squirrell (1893-1979). READ MORE

UK
Export block: British government prevents Battle of Trafalgar flag going abroad
An export block has been issued for a Battle of Trafalgar Union flag in the hope a UK institution will raise the £450,000 needed to keep it in the country. READ MORE

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What sold
French flair: Vigée Le Brun portrait and Napoleon’s fish kettle bring demand
A work by the most famous French portraitist of the age Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) was among the best-sellers in the sale of works from a country house in Brittany. READ MORE

International
Manuscripts: Frederick Douglass draft for speech about slavery triples estimate
A previously unknown single-page handwritten draft of a speech by Frederick Douglass given during a tour of the UK emerged at a sale in Ohio. READ MORE

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