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We screened Quinneys at York Picture House, York on Wednesday 24th November 2021 for invited guests, and again at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Wednesday 1st December 2021. Both events were a great success! The subject of the play is fictional antique dealer Joseph Quinney and his activities as a dealer in the early...
Locating the Jewish Art Dealer in London: cultural and spatial geographies
This keynote lecture from Dr Mark Westgarth forms part of the Jewish Country Houses’ project workshop: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, 1850 – 1930.
The Furniture History Society have organised a seminar focused on the antique dealer archives, generously donated by leading antique dealers to the Brotherton Library Special Collections at the University of Leeds. These archives have brought together, for the first time, an extraordinary range of historic business archives of several well-known antique furniture dealers such as Phillips of Hitchin and Ronald A. Lee. This event, chaired by Dr Mark Westgarth, brings leading dealers Jerome Phillips and Martin Levy in conversation with Joanne Fitton, Head of Special Collections, and Karen Sayers, lead archivist, at the Brotherton Library Special Collections, to explore the riches of these archives. The event will highlight key items in the archives, some of which date back to the 1880s, as well as outlining their history and how they came to Leeds. There will also be an opportunity to direct questions to the participants and to hear about plans for the future of these increasingly important resources.
The Antique Dealer in Fact & Fiction
A Lighthearted Zoom Talk with Dr Mark Westgarth
Mark Westgarth is Associate Professor in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK.
He is founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Art & Antiques Market in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies.
He is author of A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Antique & Curiosity Dealers (2011), SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story (2019) and more recently, The Emergence of the Antique & Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: the commodification of historical objects (2020).
He was guest curator for the recent exhibition, ‘SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story’ at the Bowes Museum, County Durham.
This will be a light-hearted talk about the role of antique dealers in fact and fiction and will cover from Dickens to Lovejoy! Should be fun!
We are pleased to announce that we have created a new antique dealer research project Newsletter - here is Number 1, of what we hope will be news from the project, two or three times a year. ADRP Issue 01 HiRes FINAL (1)
We very much hope you enjoy reading about the project.
Mark
The SOLD! catalogue is now published, and thanks to the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) we are able to make the digital E-Version of the SOLD! catalogue free for everyone - you can download the PDF version (9Mb at 72dpi) - here's the PDF below; Enjoy!