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Bendor Grosvenor

Dr Bendor Grosvenor
Born 1977
Nationality British & Swiss
Occupation
Website www.arthistorynews.com

Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art dealer, art historian and writer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorrain and Peter Brueghel the Younger. He presents the BBC4 series 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' with Jacky Klein, and does specialist research for, and appears in, the BBC1 art programme, Fake or Fortune? As a dealer he specialises in Old Masters, with a particular interest in Anthony van Dyck.

Grosvenor was educated at Harrow School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia where he completed his PhD entitled "The Politics of Foreign Policy: Lord Derby and the Eastern Crisis, 1875-8". Before becoming an art historian he worked in politics, first as an adviser to the Labour MP Tony Banks, Lord Stratford, and then to the Conservative MP Hugo Swire.

His first major art discovery was a mis-catalogued portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence in 2003 that was being sold at a London auction as a work by Lawrence's pupil, George Henry Harlow. From 2005 until 2014 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. He now has his own company, and specialises in establishing the authenticity of paintings. He recently sold a newly identified portrait by Joan Carlile, the first professional British female artist, to the Tate gallery.


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