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Henlys Group PLC was a major London motor distributor and dealer founded in 1917 in London's Great Portland Street. In the 1980s it was taken over by a company associated with Michael Ashcroft, then some years later sold to Yorkshire bus manufacturer Plaxton. Long-established Plaxton took the Henlys name in March 1992, sold the motor business ...
Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.
Thomas Agnew & Sons is a fine arts dealer in London that began as a print and publishing partnership between Thomas Agnew and Vittore Zanetti in Manchester in 1817. Agnew ended the partnership by taking full control of the company in 1835. The firm opened its London gallery in 1860, where it soon established itself as a leading art dealership ...
George Cohen, Sons and Company was a scrap metal merchant with offices in Commercial Road, London.The company was founded by George Henry Cohen (d.1890) [1] as Messrs. George Cohen & Co. in 1834 [2] and changed its name to George Cohen, Sons and Co. in 1883 on the appointment of Michael Cohen, son of the founder. [3]
Peter John Nahum (born 19 January 1947) is an English art dealer, author, lecturer, and journalist best known for his frequent appearances on the BBC television program Antiques Roadshow, in which he was present from 1981 to 2002. He discovered a Richard Dadd watercolor on the show which was subsequently sold to the British Museum.
The Society of London Art Dealers is an organisation founded in 1932 for the promotion of dealers of fine art and antiquities in London. It is a founder member of the British Art Market Federation and a member of the Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art ( CINOA ). [1] The organisation has 185 members across the United ...
4 March 1947 (age 77) Houghton-le-Spring, England. Education. Chorister School, Durham. Durham School. Occupation. Businessman. Sir Peter Vardy DL (born 4 March 1947) is an English businessman. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 ranking of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom, he placed 388th with an estimated fortune of £140 million.
British Antique Dealers' Association Logo 2020. The British Antique Dealers' Association (BADA) was founded in London, 1918.It is Britain's leading trade association for art and antique dealers and its members are carefully vetted and selected for their experience and professional integrity, as well as the quality and craftsmanship of their stock.