About Art History News
Welcome to Art History News. It began in by Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, an art historian, writer, and broadcaster. The aim is to provide a useful source for art history related news stories, such as exhibitions, research and recently discovered paintings. Since stories have been regularly updated by Adam Busiakiewicz, an art historian, lecturer and lutenist based in London. Adam has finished his PhD in Art History at the University of Warwick.
AHN welcomes contributions and opinions. We don't have a comments section like most blogs, as all reader feedback is incorporated into the main site, and not ignored in an area where nobody ever goes. So, if you have a news story, or simply want to agree or disagree with what AHN or someone else has said, then please get in touch.
About Bendor Grosvenor
Dr. Bendor Grosvenor is an art historian specialising in Old Masters and British pictures, especially portraits. He is best known as the co-presenter of the BBC series 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces', and has discovered a number of important paintings by prominent artists. He is also a writer and a former government adviser on archives an
'Art Detective: supporting public collections'
Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the United Kingdom. The website contains artworks belonging to over 3, British institutions, where they are made available for free – for enjoyment, learning and research.
Art Detective aims to improve our knowledge of this vast public art collection by connecting those institutions with specialists and members of the public. From contributing small updates to uncovering major new attributions, you can help us to improve our knowledge of the nation's art!
Join us on Wednesday 2 February , 3–5pm on Teams.
Speakers: Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Professor Emerita Lou Taylor, Mr Kieran Owens, Mr Andrew Greg and Dr Marion Richards
Bendor Grosvenor
Dr Bendor Grosvenor is an art historian, and specialises in British portraiture from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. He presents Britain’s Lost Masterpieces for the BBC, and writes for The Art Newspaper.
Lou Taylor
Lou Taylor is Professor Emerita of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton and an international authority on dress and textiles
Quick Facts
Bendor Grosvenor Biography
Bendor Grosvenor is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on November 27, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November ) is a British art historian, writer, and former art dealer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost artworks by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. As a dealer he specialised in Old Masters, with a particular interest in Anthony van Dyck.
His first major art discovery was a mis-catalogued portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence in that was being sold at a London auction as a work by Lawrence’s pupil, George Henry Harlow. From until , he worked for Philip Mould Ltd, where he made a number of significant art historical discoveries, including lost works by artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and Sir Anthony Van Dyck, on whom he is an acknowledged specialist. In he sold a newly identified portrait by Joan Carlile, the first professional British female artist, to the Tate gallery.
Bendor Grosvenor Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
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