IN ART WORLD NEWS

• In London, The National Gallery has received record-breaking donations for a new wing and will start collecting 20th century art. £375m of the proposed £400m has already been raised.
• Nearby, on Piccadilly, the Society of Antiquaries has launched its own fundraising campaign, 'Past Matters: Shaping Our Future at Burlington House'. The campaign commences with a talks series, running from 28 October – 19 November, which supports the Society's vision to transform its historic home into a world-leading centre for the study of material culture.
• In Berlin, a Wilhelm Busch drawing, lost in the Second World War, has returned to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The drawing was discovered on the Swiss art market and, following its identification, was gifted by the owner to the Kupferstichkabinett.
• In Argentina, a painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi, stolen from the Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during the Second World War and recently identified in an estate agent’s advertisement, has been seized by Argentine police.
• In Paris, the auctioneers Millon and the cabinet de Bayser have unveiled a significant rediscovered drawing by Daniele da Volterra, which will come to the block on 19 November.
• In Amsterdam, research carried out as part of Operation Night Watch has revealed that Rembrandt based the barking dog in The Night Watch on an early 17th-century drawing by Adriaen van de Venne (1590–1662).

IN GALLERY, ART FAIR AND AUCTION NEWS

• 2–11 October – Impressionist Printmaking at Emmanuel von Baeyer, 18 Cecil Court (London).
• 9–30 October – Strange Discoveries: The Art of Denton Welch presented by John Swarbrooke at Fitzroy Square (London).
• Until 11 October – Joana Galego: Hiding Behind Gifts at Oliver Projects (London)
• 15–19 October – Frieze Masters at The Regent’s Park (London).
• 16 October – Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I at Christie’s (London).
• 16–19 October – Munich HIGHLIGHTS at the Residenz (Munich).
• 20–24 October – Marie Antoinette - Queen and Court, presented by The Limner Company at Daniel Crouch Rare Books (London).
• 24 October – 14 November – Peinture du XIXe Siècle at Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes (Paris).
• 28 October – 2 November – LAPADA at Berkeley Square (London).
• Until 20 December – NOBLEcurve, presented by Interval in collaboration with Rafael Valls and Sam Fogg at Interval (London).

IN LECTURE AND EVENT NEWS

• 2 October – Conference: From Raphael to Maratti: Disegnatori delle Marche tra Rinascimento & Barocco at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Rome). Organised by Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Federico Zuccari and L’IDEA | Testi Fonti Lessico. 9.45am. Also available online.
• 10 October – Opening conference: John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris at the Musée d'Orsay (Paris). Speakers: Paul Perrin, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons. 12pm. €12.
• 16 October – Lecture: Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy at Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington). Speaker: Hugh Belsey. 7pm. Free with advance registration.
• 17 October – Lecture: Renoir's Creative Process at The Morgan Library & Museum (New York). Speaker: Colin B. Bailey. 6pm. Free with advance registration.
• 23 October – Lecture: Unveiling Vermeer: Andrew Graham-Dixon on the Man and his Masterpieces at Friends House, Euston (London). 7pm. £22.99.
• 22–24 October – Conference: Fragilité. Ästhetische Konjunkturen im 18. Jahrhundert at the University of Tübingen (Tübingen).
• 30 October – Symposium: Marks on Art at Aula KB – National Library of the Netherlands (The Hague). 10am. €50; €25 for friends of the RKD and students.
• 6–7 November – Events series: ON DRAWINGS 2025 (New York). Two days of events and conversations among curators, collectors, conservators, and artists focused on historical, modern, and contemporary drawings, organised by The Drawing Foundation. Registration opens 1 October.

IN LITERARY, MUSEUM AND ACADEMIC NEWS

• Job opportunity – Curator of British Prints and Drawings (1500-1774) at the British Museum, London. Application deadline: 8 October.
• Job opportunity – Curator of Prints and Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Application deadline: unspecified.
• Fellowship opportunity – The David and Julie Tobey Fellowship at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Florence. Four or six months. Application deadline: 15 November. To support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance for the 2026–2027 academic year.
• New publication – Michel Dorigny (1616-1665) Vouet en Héritage, Damien Tellas. Released with Arthena. €125.
• New publication – The Story of Tudor Art, Christina J. Farraday. Released with Apollo. £28.
• New publication – Maria Sibylla Merian, Catherine Powell-Warren. Released with Lund Humphries. £35.
• New publication – Constable, Tim Barringer. Released with Yale Books. $40.
• New publication – Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Andrew Graham-Dixon. Released 23 October with Allen Lane. £30.
• Call for papers – Switzerland between sublime and picturesque: Research on Swiss drawing and printmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries at University of Zurich (Zurich). Organised by the Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Zürich and Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich. Proposal deadline: 1 November 2025. Symposium date: 5 June 2026.
• Announcement – British Museum Prints and Drawings Study Room: New Opening Schedule. CODART reports that the Prints and Drawings study room is now open for the month of January and closed in August. The study room is currently open via appointment on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

IN ACQUISITION NEWS

• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), Embracing Couple or Prodigal Son. Acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from Galerie Ambroise Duchemin, Paris.
• François Boucher (1703–1770), Reclining Shepherdess. Acquired by The Frick Collection, New York, gift from the Collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard. Now on view in the Boucher Anteroom.
• Jean Clouet (1485/90–1541), Half length portrait of a middle-aged man with a cap. Acquired by the Musée Condé, Chantilly, from Koller, Zurich (via La Tribue de l’Art).
• Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Mother Jeanne Nursing Her Baby. Added to the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, along with some 80 artworks via a combination of acquisitions and promised gifts.
• A drawing for Cassiano dal Pozzo's 'Paper Museum', A hippopotamus. Acquired by the Royal Collection, Windsor, from Christie’s, New York (via Instagram, @Martin_Clayton).
• The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, has acquired several drawings: 
• Claude Simpol (c. 1666–before 1711), The return of the Holy Family from Egypt, from Marty de Cambiaire, Paris.
• Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), Melchizedek Blessing Abraham, from C.G. Boerner, New York.
• Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), An Old Man Seated at a Table, His Head Resting on His Right Hand (recto); The Healing of Tobit (verso), from Benjamin Peronnet, Paris.
• François Boucher (1703–1770), Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot, last seen with W.M. Brady & Co, New York.