Philip Mould
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Philip Mould OBE |
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| Born | 1960 |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
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Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould OBE (born 1960) is an English art dealer, writer and broadcaster. He has made a number of major art discoveries, including some of Thomas Gainsborough's earliest known works, the only known portrait of Prince Arthur Tudor and a number of lost works by Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
Mould is the author of two books on art discovery and is widely consulted by the media on the subject. He is well known for his role co-presenting the BBC television programme Fake or Fortune?, the most watched arts programme on television.
Mould was educated at Kingsmead School, Hoylake, Worth School and the University of East Anglia from where he graduated with a BA in History of Art in 1981.
Mould's father owned a factory in Liverpool and his family was based in the Wirral. He developed an interest in antiques at an early age, thanks to his mother. She suffered polio as a child, and was in a wheelchair so would send Philip, aged six, into antiques shops to bring things out to her for inspection. Mould made friend with the owner of a local antiques shop, who taught him to read hallmarks on silver when he was just 11 or 12 years old, and by the age of 14 he was dealing in antique silver.
Mould began art dealing in his early teens and has since established a leading art dealership specialising in British art, a subject on which he is internationally consulted. He has sold works to public institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York),National Portrait Gallery (London), Museum of Fine Arts Boston,Tate,The Huntington (California), and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
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