rediscovery

Jun 22

A rediscovered portrait of Alexis Soyer by his wife Emma

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I’m joining forces with my friend Dominic Sanchez-Cabello this week in a talk at the Royal Academy, bringing to life our work on rebuilding the oeuvre of Emma Soyer (c. 1809-1842). The audience of Bendor Grosvenor’s connoisseurship course will receive our first public talk on the matter, which has...

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Mar 08 2025

A Self Portrait by John Westbrooke Chandler Reappears

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I was very pleased to spot a misattributed Self Portrait by John Westbrooke Chandler whilst scrolling through the newly digitized Witt Library the other week. This portrait, which clearly relates to another signed version which sold at Christie’s a few years ago, was parading around as a work...

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Jul 29 2024

Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today

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The rediscovery of Ralph Sheldon’s lost Portrait of King Henry VIII on BBC Midlands Today 29th July 2024.

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