The oldest commercial art gallery in the world, print sellers to the Prince Regent, and pioneers of photographic publishing, Colnaghi have sold some of the most important Old Master works to come on the market to private collectors and museums across the world. In celebration of their 250th anniversary, they are producing a commemorative catalogue, which traces the history of the gallery from its foundation in 1760 by the enterprising fireworks manufacturer Giavanni Battista Torre. The book is slanted to what one might call the Golden Age of Old Master picture dealing, between c. 1894, when...

Llewellyn Powell knows the slave trade, and knows it from the inside. Now he wants to take it down... as a pirate. Llewellyn's father died in a logging accident in the great forests of Wales when Llewellyn was but a lad. Shortly after, Llewellyn ran off in hopes of sending some money back to his impoverished mother. Thinking he would find adventure and fortune he went to sea; what he found was rough and cynical company. It toughened him: he was determined to be a survivor, and he was. In fact he began to rise through the ranks until at a remarkably young age he found himself a ship's captain....