NEWS

THE AUTUMN DECORATIVE FAIR 2023

Darnley Fine Art will be exhibiting at The Decorative Fair, Autumn Edition. The Fair will run from the 3rd to the 8th of October at Evolution London in Battersea Park.

One of London’s most inspiring events for antiques, design and art here you will find extraordinary, beautiful and distinctive things for interiors and exteriors from the UK’s best decorative dealers.

Click here for more information.

UPCOMING PORTRAIT EXHIBITION – ARTISTS AND ARTISANS 

Darnley Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of portraits that will feature a collection of artists and artisans from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Coinciding with the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition sets out to celebrate a group of individuals who found creative expression through music, poetry, the theatre and fine art.

The exhibition will run from Thursday 22nd June to Thursday 29th June and will be held in our upstairs gallery at Cecil Court.

DARNLEY FINE ART FEATURES IN COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE AND ATG

In June our ‘Possible Portrait of Shakespeare’ featured in articles in both The Antiques Trade Gazette and Country Life Magazine. Created during the 16th century and believed to depict the famous playwright, this wonderful Elizabethan painting shows a middle-aged Shakespeare with an elaborate collar, small bear and a direct gaze.

For more information about the work and and the fascinating similarities that it holds to the Chandos portrait please click here.

 

THE PALM BEACH SHOW – FEBRUARY 2023

Darnley Fine Art will soon be making a trip across the pond to join the prestigious Palm Beach Show in Florida. We will be exhibiting at the 20th Annual Palm Beach Show when it returns February 16th-21st 2023 to the Palm Beach Country Convention Center over President’s Day Weekend. 

THE WINTER DECORATIVE FAIR

Darnley Fine Art will be exhibiting at the Winter Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair. The Fair will run from Tuesday 24th to Sunday 29th January and you will find us on our new stand F9. If you require complimentary tickets for this event please contact us. 

CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES 

The gallery on Cecil Court will be closed over the Christmas period from Saturday 24th December to Monday 2nd January. We will be open again in the New Year from 10:30am on Tuesday 3rd January.

We wish you and those who are important to you a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. The team here look forward to welcoming you back when we reopen in January.

THE AUTUMN DECORATIVE FAIR

It gives us great joy to confirm that we will be exhibiting at the Autumn Fair of the tri-annual Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair. A mecca for design and interiors lovers, as well as the international trade, the Autumn Fair is always a hubbub of activity. The Fair will run from Tuesday 4th October to Sunday 9th October. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Darnley Fine Art is excited to announce our next exhibition, exploring the groundbreaking work of the Modern British artist Samuel Rabin. The exhibition is slated to open at our gallery in Cecil Court on the 8th July.

JUBILEE WEEKEND OPENING TIMES

To celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Darnley Fine Art will be closed on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th of June. We will be open as normal from Monday 6th June onwards. We hope that you all have an enjoyable bank holiday with your friends and family.

 

SUCCESS AT THE DECORATIVE ANTIQUES & TEXTILES SPRING FAIR

We have just returned from The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Spring Fair and what a week it has been! As we are settling back into our gallery in Cecil Court are heads are still full of the fantastic wealth of art, design and antiques that were on display.

After two years of experiencing a very strange world it was a pleasure to see so many of you again, in the flesh, as you paid a visit to our stand. We are excited to say that we will be back in to exhibit at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in the Autumn – more details for this will be released later in the year.