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Raccanello Leprince, ceramic specialists, show Lustrous Iridescence-The Experimental Glazes of Ulise Cantagalli, for their London Art Week Winter 2018 exhibition. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James's, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

The Weiss Gallery window display, Jermyn Street, for their London Art Week exhibition, Facing History - Northern European Portraiture 1550-1765. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

Sam Fogg, an illuminated manuscript in their London Art Week Winter 2018 exhibition Seven Objects, Seven Days - Art of the Middle Ages. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

Didier Aaron Ltd holds an exhibition titled Neoclassicism in France: Paintings, drawings and sculpture 1770 to 1830 for London Art Week. This low-relief bronze by Barthélemy François Chardigny (1757-1813) depicts Urania teaching Eratosthenes astronomy and was conceived to decorate the base of a clock commissioned on behalf of Napoleon I in 1808 for Château de Compiègne.

Guy Peppiatt & Stephen Ongpin hold a joint exhibition for London Art Week Winter 2018, 100 Drawings & Watercolours. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

David Wilkie RA (1785-1841), The Gentle Shepherd, 1823, oil on panel. This is a superb example of the smaller paintings of Sir David Wilkie’s maturity, made at the time he was regarded as the finest painter of narrative pictures. It is notable for both the beauty of its execution and the sensitivity of the emotions displayed by the three figures. It is one of Wilkie’s masterpieces, on display at Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd for London Art Week Winter 2018.

Carlo Virgilio & C displays a work by Giorgio Szoldatics (1873-193), Self-Portrait as Giordano Bruno, at their London Art Week Winter 2018 exhibition. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

This bold oil on canvas by Guiseppe Vermiglio (c1587-post 1635) depicts The Sacrifice of Isaac, and measures 132 x 162cm. It forms part of The Weiss Gallery’s exhibition, Facing History: Northern European Portraiture 1550-1765 at London Art Week Winter 2018.

Galerie Neuse is exhibiting jointly with S.Franses, both new participants at London Art Week Winter 2018, with an exhibition titled Splendours of the Haute Epoque. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk

Robilant+Voena is holding an exhibition called The Gentileschi Effect, featuring works by Artemesia Gentileschi, her circle, and those who were influenced by her work. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James’s, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk