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Landseer's Scene in Braemar reached a sale price of £5.9m at Sotheby's . PIC: Sotheby's

Landseer's work may divide - but it is worthy of embrace Professor Frances Fowle

Landseer's Scene in Braemar reached a sale price of £5.9m at Sotheby's . PIC: Sotheby's

Sale of £5.9m Landseer sets record as romantic Highland vision holds

The Nazi medal and Swastika badge sold at auction

Auction house will no longer sell Nazi artefacts due to 'sensitivity'

JK Rowling attends the press preview of "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child" at Palace Theatre in London. Picture: Rob Stothard/Getty Images

This is the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction

The handwritten manuscript is going up for auction in New York

Sherlock Holmes manuscript set to fetch record £1 million at auction

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Distillers One of One auction

Distillers One of One auction raises over £2M for Scottish charities

1,500 items owned by Freddie Mercury to go on auction

The painting by the abstract artist Frantisek Kupka, owned by the late Sir Sean Connery

Frantisek Kupka painting owned by Sean Connery set to fetch more than £2m

Kim Kardashian has paid a total of £163,800 for a necklace worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.

Kim Kardashian buys Diana’s Attallah Cross in auction

Manuscripts curator Ralph McLean with Sir Walter Scott's original working manuscript of Rob Roy.

Walter Scott’s ‘priceless’ Rob Roy manuscript to go on display in Edinburgh

Interest in telecoms giant BT has heated up in recent months. Picture: Jeff Holmes

Reaction: UK government to probe French billionaire's stake in BT

Undated handout photo issued by Sotheby's of Andy Warhol's Reigning Queens, 1985.

Warhol’s pop art Queen and Armada portrait of Elizabeth I on show for Jubilee

Diego Maradona's first goal against England is an iconic moment in football history. (Picture credit: Getty Images)

Diego Maradona’s Hand of God shirt expected to fetch £4m at auction

The key to Napoleon's prison bedroom which is going under-the-hammer after it was unearthed in a trunk in Scotland. PA Photo

Napoleon prison key up for auction after being unearthed in Scotland

This Joan Eardley painting of fishing nets at at the coastal village of Catterline, in Aberdeenshire, where she spent her later years has been valued at up to £60,000.

First look: The Scottish art treasures set to come under the hammer

Rare Toyota 2000GT sells for nearly £700,000

Show Me The Monet was sold at auction for £7.5m (Getty Images)

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Edinburgh artist Peter Doig.

BA selling art off its collection - including works by Edinburgh's Peter Doig

The Bee was build specifically for the islanders of Stroma, which sits between Caithness on the mainland and Orkney, so they could navigate the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth. PIC: Sotheby's.

Last surviving Viking-inspired boat that served a now- abandoned island goes up ...

The lock of hair belonging to Bonnie Prince Charlie which helped the Young Pretender promote his cult status centuries before Instagram.

Lock of hair belonging to Bonnie Prince Charlie to go to auction

The Macallan 1926

Bottle of ‘holy grail’ whisky sells for £1.5m

Bottle of ‘holy grail’ whisky sells for £1.5m

Welsh says a failed music bid led him to create one of the 20th century's most acclaimed examples of literature. Picture: TSPL

Failed music bid pushed me to write Trainspotting, says Irvine Welsh

The original Trainspotting poster could fetch a four-figure sum. Picture: Sotheby's

Rare Trainspotting movie poster could fetch four-figure sum at Sotheby's auction

The Lewis Chessman could raise 1m at auction after being discovered in a draw (Photo: Getty Images)

Lewis Chessman found in drawer expected to raise £1m at Sotheby’s auction

The Lewis Chessmen. Picture: TSPL

Edinburgh family find long-lost Lewis Chessmen piece in drawer - and it's worth ...

Victoria Beckham she entered the fashion arena she was surrounded by preconceptions. Picture: Getty

Victoria Beckham lauds ‘fearless’ historic female artists

Banksy reveals that in rehearsals the shredding had worked every time, with footage of a test run showing a print passing through the shredder completely, so that none of the canvas remained intact.

Bansky video shows he planned to shred entire painting

Banksy's artwork, Girl With Balloon shredded itself after being sold for more than Â£1 million at auction. Picture: PA

Banksy painting self-shreds seconds after Â£1m Sotheby's sale

The vast collection has gone on display for the first time. Picture: John Devlin

Scottish Colourist paintings to generate millions at auction

Reflection, which was painted by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell in 1915, is expected to fetch up to 600,000 at auction next month.

Dozens of Scottish Colourist works set to go under the hammer for millions

Girl With a Green Scarf is among Joan Eardley's paintings of tenement children in Glasgow coming up for auction.

Joan Eardley paintings of tenement children to go under the hammer

A gold ring given to Vivien Leigh. Picture: Getty

Family of Vivien Leigh to auction 250 items belonging to star

Fettercairn House in Aberdeenshire. Picture: TSPL

Sale of Fettercairn House treasure shines light on past glory

The book was handwritten by JK Rowling. Picture: Dan Hallman/AP

'˜Harry Potter' book handwritten by JK Rowling sells for Â£370,000

Sir John Lavery's 1921 painting of North Berwick's golf links has fetched 872,750 at auction.

Early portrait of women's golf sells at auction for nearly Â£900,000

Auctioneer Oliver Barker fields bids at the sale of David Bowies personal art collection. Picture: Getty Images

David Bowie's art collection goes under the hammer for Â£24m

A detail of Fergussons Amongst The Rocks, Cap dAntibes, with an estimated price of Â£100,000 to Â£150,000

'˜Exceptional' Scottish Colourists mark auction's return

David Bowie's Scottish art collection revealed

A photograph of Bowie by Gavin Evans. Picture: PA

David Bowie's private art collection to be sold

Artist Peter Howson paints Richard DeMarco at the world premiere of a the short film Berkoff, Art & Peter Howson in 2014. Picture: Greg Macvean

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WHILE the work of the Colourists continues to dominate the top end of the Scottish art market, a range of living contemporary artists are still able to command ...

Former Carbisdale Castle youth hostel in Sutherland. Picture: Contributed

Historic Scots youth hostel’s art goes up for sale

Legal battle centred on The Cardsharps, which hangs in the Museum of the Order of St John in London. Picture: Getty

Connoisseur loses legal battle over ‘Caravaggio’

Rome, from Mount Aventine expected to sell for £15m-20m. Picture: Contributed

National treasure to be sold at auction

Joseph Turners masterpiece, Rome, from Mount Aventine, which is to go on sale for only the second time in 200 years. Picture: Getty

Scots family to sell Turner’s Rome to save home

Lowry's the Street Musician estimated at £600,000 to £800,000 goes up for auction on Tuesday. Picture: Sotherby's

Caithness Picture by Lowry goes to auction

A Composition of Three Figures has been named as a work by Titian. Picture: Contributed

£25,000 sketch is Titian worth millions

Martin Luther King. Picture: Getty

New row over Martin Luther King possessions

The Macallan M. Picture: Contributed

Rare Macallan M whisky sold for £380,000

The Bay Psalm Book sold for a world-record price yesterday. Picture: Getty

US psalm book from 1640 breaks world record

Bacons lifesize Three Studies of Lucian Freud pays tribute to the friendship between the two artists. Picture: PA

Francis Bacon masterpiece smashes auction record

Jack Vettriano's The Singing Butler. Picture: PA

Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler to go on show

John Knox's painting of 19th century holiday revellers on Glasgow Green

John Knox painting tracked down after 100 years

A first edition copy of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by J K Rowling. Picture: Getty

Harry Potter first edition a notable read

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