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On the eve of a new exhibition, Opie explains why it's every artist's right to break rules and explore 'dodgy pastures'

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The portrait of Catherine de Medici with her children, made in the workshop of Francois Clouet, has returned to Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill after being auction almost two centuries ago © Kilian O'Sullivan One of Horace Walpole’s treasures has returned to Strawberry Hill, his fantasy miniature Medieval palace on the banks of the Thames in West London, almost two centuries after the writer and collector’s possessions were scattered in an auction so spectacular that charabanc excursions were organised from central London for bidders and the merely curious. The po...

Published: 11:30 AM January 29, 2021    An oil portrait by the 17th century Bury St Edmunds artist Mary Beale, which has sold at auction for £100,000. - Credit: Reeman Dansie The work of 17th century Bury St Edmunds artist Mary Beale has received a new record offer after one of her oil portraits sold at auction for £100,000. The oil portrait, believed to be of her son Batholomew Beale, sold for £100,000 to an internet bidder on Wednesday. The portrait was the top lot in a two-day auction by Reeman Dansie Auctioneers in Colchester, which exceeded sales of £600,000. The auction was only...

Lady Mountbatten's family collection to be offered at Sotheby's Anniversary Gifts: A pair of jewelled gold and enamel elephants, Jaipur, 1946 (est. £2,000-3,000), and a Fabergé silver-gilt inkwell, probably workmaster Julius Rappoport, St Petersburg, circa 1900 (est. £4,000-6,000). Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON .- The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, great niece of Russia’s last Tsarina, first cousin to Prince Philip and the daughter of Britain’s last Viceroy of India, the late Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten was born in 1924 into a dazzli...