To invest in art as a true investment, he suggests you need a starting fund of at least £5,000, and possibly up to £500,000, which can be used to buy individual works of art or invested in an ...

Holly Hammond, left, and Coralie Thomson, from auctioneers Duggleby Stephenson, with the painting by British artist Patrick Heron A painting picked up at a French flea market by a woman from East ...