An April Christie's auctioned an important and long-lost portrait work by Lucas Cranach the Elder that had been recently returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann
Topographical pictures specialist Nicholas Lambourn discuss the rising interest in China for Chinese export paintings
On 6 and 7 of December Christie’s offered almost 400 lots from a collection that includes works by Hals, Van Dyck, Leyster, Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder
Check out those epic virago sleeves! Our Old Master paintings specialist runs the sartorial rule over works that caught her eye during Classic Week in London
Specialist Stijn Alsteens discusses this portrait of a young man — one of only 28 surviving drawings by the artist — which sold for £11,483,750 in London
As marriage portraits by Frans Hals and Anthony van Dyck are offered in London, the recently wed Andrew Graham-Dixon selects favourite images of couples
Old Masters specialist Jonquil O’Reilly illuminates the story behind Anthony van Dyck’s sumptuous Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England
Two rare Spanish still life highlights owned by the late New York art dealer and his wife, which are touring to Madrid, London, Los Angeles and Hong Kong
Explore an array of extraordinary art and objects, from Roman marbles and rare drawings to Eric Albada Jelgersma’s collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings
Intriguing and affordable works by Goya, Guercino, Scolari, Aluisetti and Vico — offered in Christie’s online sale
Ahead of the sale of The Knight of the Lord's Passion, Alastair Smart profiles the Pre-Raphaelite artist described by Burne-Jones as ‘the best of us all’
This English figure of Christ — one of only two of its type known to have survived the nine centuries since it was cast — was previously thought to have been French
As works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Breughel the Elder and Jan Breughel the Younger comes to auction, we unpick art history’s most tangled family tree
Highlights from a sale of items from Rugby School’s collection include works by Lucas van Leyden and Correggio, medieval manuscripts and important antiquities
Russian Works of Art specialist Margo Oganesian offers an expert overview of a category that is very much on the up
A look at the sartorial flair — both in the pictures and those selling them — at TEFAF’s opening night in New York
Discover an Assyrian gypsum relief, a Roman marble torso of Hercules, plus works by Hammershøi, Régnier, Courbet and more
This intimate masterpiece was for many years unattributed, until an art historian’s powers of recall solved its mystery in the late 1970s
Ahead of Christie’s inaugural European Paintings auction on 31 October, Arne Everwijn discusses Courbet’s radical nudes
On 30 October Christie’s will auction more than 200 works from the collection of the renowned art dealer and scholar
A series of guides to some of the most important artists we offer at auction
Specialist Sarah Reynolds on the women whose work made waves in Victorian Britain, from Emma Sandys to Laura, Lady Alma-Tadema
Andrew Graham-Dixon on how full-length portraits have been used in history to boost the status of nobles, kings and statesmen
Specialist Tim Schmelcher explains why this 1655 print is considered among the artist’s greatest achievements in any medium
From Klimt and Schiele in New York to the Pre-Raphaelites in San Francisco — here’s our roundup of these and other major exhibitions from Chicago to São Paulo
This painting is one of only a handful of portraits by the artist of his daughter Clara Serena, who died aged just 12 years old
Explore an extraordinary array of objects from antiquity to the 20th century to be offered during Classic Week in London from 3–12 July
The artistic director of The Grange Festival — a month-long staging of opera in the south of England — selects favourite works from Christie’s Classic Week in London
Seven expert tips on collecting, whether you seek affordable works on paper or a museum-quality masterpiece
Venice resident Bianca Arrivabene, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s in Italy, on why this painting brought back happy memories for David Rockefeller