Buffy Parker and Henny Smith set up Parker Fine Art Auctions in Farnham, Surrey in 2020. The pair had worked together at auction house John Nicholson’s for around five years prior to that.
Parker, who started at Bonhams as a porter in 1973, had previously run his own art dealership in Hampshire for 30 years, while Smith started her career at Sotheby’s as an archivist in 1998 in the British pictures department and also previously worked at Tennants auctioneers.
10 July 2024
The Royal Artillery Museum has emerged as the winning bidder for a rare eyewitness view of a First World War battle sold at a recent auction in Farnham.
02 July 2024
Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly’s observations of the Battle of Loos appears at Parker Fine Art Auctions
26 February 2024
Group of works by a maker who used mostly traditional techniques creates a secondary market test
27 November 2023
While pictures of young female sitters are not unusual in the oeuvre of George Clausen (1852-1944), ones with mythological or allegorical subjects are distinctly rarer.
16 October 2023
The early English Surrealist Tristram Hillier (1905-83) was a regular visitor to Spain and Portugal.
04 July 2023
Movers & Shakers in the world of art and antiques.
03 July 2023
Buffy Parker is celebrating 50 years in the art market.
05 June 2023
One of the most talked about pictures sold at auction recently was a portrait by an almost unheard of artist that emerged in Surrey.
10 October 2022
A couple of ballet-related lots danced away for high prices over the summer.
26 September 2022
Usually overshadowed by the art that lies within, it is often forgotten that frames themselves can be a fundamental part of the overall value.
26 September 2022
“Parker has created the first regular frames auction with a dedicated catalogue in more than 10 years. It is great to see.”
08 August 2022
Can an original frame make all the difference to price? A recent Surrey auction provided an interesting test.
25 April 2022
A small work by Maggi Hambling (b.1945) was among the pieces of Modern and Contemporary art attracting interest recently at Parker Fine Art Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
04 April 2022
Local appeal propelled a naïve painting of Farnham to 40-times its top estimate at Parker Fine Art Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale.
28 February 2022
A couple of dog portraits by leading Victorian canine painter John Emms (1844-1912) brought a flurry of bids at separate auctions held just a day apart.
21 February 2022
Pictures by eastern European artists generating interest from national-minded buyers is an increasingly common sight at UK regional sales.
31 January 2022
Response to trio of works indicates fresh interest in female artists is a factor at all price levels
29 November 2021
The strong prices for Modern British female artists keep rolling on. Among the notable results in the regions recently was a beach scene by Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) that was among the star performers at Parker Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
06 September 2021
An intriguing variation on an Old Master sparked a strong competition at Parker Fine Art (25% buyer’s premium) earlier this summer.
12 July 2021
A large 18th century watercolour of a Scottish loch by William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862) emerged as a star lot at Parker Fine Art (25% buyer’s premium).
