Welcome to our first virtual fair and this online version of The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Whilst not providing you with the opportunity to hold an item or see it for real, this virtual event still offers ample choice and ways to interact with our exhibitors. Each participating dealer has a page of their own with contact details and links to their websites, so please get in touch direct with them to make further enquiries or a purchase. Art and antiques have long been traded successfully online and we now bring our popular Petworth Park fair to your screen.

The fair will run round the clock from the early hours of 15 May until late evening on 31 May (BST) so it can be browsed at your leisure in any time-zone around the world. The vast majority of exhibitors are members of either of the UK's two largest associations of professional dealers – the British Antique Dealers' Association or LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers - both of which have codes of practice to which their members must adhere.

It is our hope that life will return to some normality by late summer and that The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair can go ahead over its revised date of Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September. Any ticket already in circulation for the May event will be valid in the autumn. If you would like to download a complimentary invitation, admitting three guests free of charge to both the fair and Petworth House over the September dates, please click here. For a glimpse of what treasures await in Petworth House, go to their website, and you can get a feel for all that is usually on offer in the market town of Petworth by visiting Discoverpetworth.uk. You can also read our daily musings on the fair blog.

Enjoy your virtual journey and stay safe,

Ingrid Nilson, Director of The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited