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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Auctioneering, valuations |
| Founded | 1759 |
| Founder | Thomas Davis |
| Key people | Henry House (CEO) Will Richards (Chairman) |
| Owner | Gurr Johns |
| Website | www |
Established in 1759, Dreweatts is one of the oldest fine art auction houses in the the world.
Over its 250-year history, Dreweatts has conducted several landmark sales, including the collections of Lady Elizabeth Berkeley of Benham Park, the Hon. Daisy Fellowes of Donnington Grove, the Sitwell family of Weston Hall, Robert Kime[1] and the Hon. Patrick and Lady Amabel Lindsay.[2]
The company was originally established in Newbury, Berkshire. It continues to operate its salerooms at Donnington Priory. Dreweatts also maintains a gallery and offices on Pall Mall, London, where it regularly holds exhibitions.
In 2017, Dreweatts was acquired by the international art advisory firm Gurr Johns, its current owner.[3]
A number of works handled by Dreweatts have subsequently entered the collections of major museums and public institutions, including the British Museum[4], the Ashmolean Museum[5], the Rijksmuseum[6], the J. Paul Getty Museum[7], and the Art Institute of Chicago[8].
History
[edit]Founding
[edit]
Dreweatts was founded by Thomas Davis (d. 1794), an upholsterer and cabinet maker, in 1759.[9] He operated two businesses, manufacturing furniture and auctioning predominantly livestock.
His son, William Davis (1772–1835),[10] developed the business following his father's death, incorporating the sale of freehold property.[11]
William was succeeded by his son, Alexander Davis (1815–1903),[12] who continued to expand the business by auctioning furniture and household goods. In 1881, Alexander entered into a partnership with Harry G. Few.[note 1] Following Alexander's retirement in 1884,[13] Few amalgamated the business with that of local auctioneer Thomas Dreweatt.[14]
Dreweatt, Watson & Barton
[edit]In 1898, Thomas Dreweatt promoted his employee Arthur Watson to partner, and the business was subsequently styled as Dreweatt & Watson.[15] The addition of Harold Barton as a partner in 1919 saw the firm renamed Dreweatt, Watson & Barton.[16] It continued to trade under that name until 1987, when it merged with A.W. Neate to form Dreweatt Neate.[17]
Dreweatt Neate
[edit]In 2003, Dreweatt Neate was acquired by the Fine Art Auction Group, joining its network of regional auction houses, which included Bristol Auction Rooms, Bracketts Fine Art Auctions and Honiton Galleries.[18] The transaction marked a division of the business. While its auctioneering activities were absorbed into the Fine Art Auction Group, the estate agency and property management division continued to operate independently until it was acquired by Carter Jonas in 2009.[19]
In 2004, the Fine Art Auction Group rebranded its regional salerooms under the Dreweatt Neate name, with the exception of Neales of Nottingham.[20] Mike Thoms, the group's Chief Executive, stated that the rebranding would enable the company to "compete in the UK regional market on a more co-ordinated basis". [21] The rebranding continued in 2008, when the group adopted the name Dreweatts 1759.[22]
The Fine Art Auction Group continued to expand its auction portfolio with the acquisition of Bloomsbury Auctions, a specialist auctioneer of antiquarian books and manuscripts, in 2011.[23][note 2]
The following year, Will Richards, formerly a director at Bonhams, was appointed Deputy Chairman of Dreweatts.[24] He subsequently became Chairman of the firm.[25]
Acquisition by Gurr Johns
[edit]In October 2017, Gurr Johns announced its acquisition of Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions for £1.25 million, with a further £4 million to be paid over the subsequent two years.[26][note 3] Gurr Johns' Executive Chairman, Harry Smith, stated that Dreweatts was well positioned to serve the increasingly "underloved" middle market.[27]
The following year, auctioneer Jonathan Pratt, a regular expert on the BBC television programmes Bargain Hunt and Flog It!, was appointed Managing Director of Dreweatts.[28]
In 2021, Gurr Johns acquired Forum Auctions, which had been established by former Fine Art Auction Group CEO Stephan Ludwig, thereby further expanding its auction division.[29]
Vicki Wonfor was appointed Managing Director of Dreweatts in 2024.[30]
In August 2025, it was announced that Forum Auctions would formally separate from Dreweatts and its parent company, Gurr Johns.[31] Wonfor remained with the newly independent Forum Auctions, where she was assumed the role of CEO.[32]
In early 2026, Henry House, former Deputy Chairman of English and European furniture at Sotheby's, was appointed CEO of Dreweatts.[33]
Chronology
[edit]| Year | Development |
|---|---|
| 1759 | Business founded by Thomas Davis. |
| 1881 | Alexander Davis entered into partnership with Harry G. Few, trading as Davis & Few. |
| 1884 | Alexander Davis retired; Harry G. Few and Thomas Dreweatt amalgamated their businesses. |
| 1898 | Thomas Dreweatt admitted Arthur Watson as a partner; the business became Dreweatt & Watson. |
| 1919 | Walter Harold Barton became a partner; the business became Dreweatt, Watson & Barton. |
| 1987 | Dreweatt, Watson & Barton merged with A. W. Neate to form Dreweatt Neate. |
| 1996 | Acquired by the Fine Art Auction Group. |
| 2004 | All regional salerooms under the Fine Art Auction Group rebranded as Dreweatt Neate. |
| 2008 | Renamed Dreweatts 1759. |
| 2009 | Formed a strategic partnership with Bloomsbury Auctions. |
| 2011 | The Fine Art Auction Group acquired Bloomsbury Auctions, integrating it with Dreweatts. |
| 2013 | Acquired by Noble Investments. |
| 2013 | Noble Investments acquired by Stanley Gibbons. |
| 2017 | Acquired by Gurr Johns. |
Locations
[edit]Donnington Priory
[edit]The present building at Donnington Priory dates from approximately 1655. An earlier priory was founded on the site in 1393 by Sir Richard de Abberbury,[34] who paid for the construction of a building to house members of the Order of the Maturine Friars.[35]
The Valor Ecclesiasticus, commissioned by Henry VIII in 1535, records William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and his wife, Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, as the founders of the priory, although this is generally regarded as a clerical error. The property had in fact been purchased by de la Pole and Chaucer from the trustees of Richard Abberbury.[36]
The original priory was suppressed in 1538 and was destroyed during the English Civil War.[37] The Cowslade family rebuilt the present house sometime after 1644,[38] on the site of the former priory.[39]
Subsequent occupants of the house included Thomas Hughes,[40] author of Tom Brown's School Days, and Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, founding member of Chatham House.
Geoffrey was a close friend of author John Buchan, who was a regular visitor to Donnington Priory during weekend breaks in the country. The priory is said to have inspired Sir Walter Bullivant's country retreat in Buchan's spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps.[41] The novel's protagonist, Richard Hannay, describes Sir Walter's home in terms that closely resemble the priory:
I came to a bridge, below which a clear, slow stream flowed between snowy beds of water buttercups … I found a pretty cottage with a lawn running down to the stream.[42]
Dreweatts acquired Donnington Priory in 1978.[43] Following extensive renovation, the building reopened to the public in 1980 with three salerooms.[44]
The site is designated as being of national importance.[45]
Pall Mall
[edit]In 2018, Dreweatts opened its first London office at 16–17 Pall Mall, St James's.[46] The office hosts valuations by appointment, exhibitions and events, while Donnington Priory remains the company's principal auction venue.[47] The showroom is situated opposite the Reform Club.
Specialisms
[edit]As auction practices have evolved, Dreweatts has adopted a number of new formats. In March 2006, it became the first auction house to conduct a sale through the online bidding platform The Saleroom.[48]
Dreweatts was the first British auction houses to hold dedicated Urban Art auctions, launching the category in 2008.[49] In 2011, Dreweatts organised a charity Urban Art auction in aid of Haven House Children's Hospice, featuring works by Banksy alongside those by 20th-century artists including Lucian Freud.[50] The auction house held its final dedicated Urban Art sale in 2012.[51] Since then, its Modern and Contemporary department has increasingly focused on Modern British art, handling works by artists including Ivon Hitchens,[52] Paul Lucien Maze,[53] Winston Churchill,[54] and Stanley Spencer.[55]
Exhibitions and Collaborations
[edit]In 2009, Dreweatts announced a collaboration with Selfridges, presenting a programme of exhibitions exploring contemporary British art and design. The series included an exhibition examining the visual culture of the UK's Acid house movement, with works by artists and designers including Peter Saville and Jamie Reid.[56] Running concurrently, an Urban art exhibition showcased works by contemporary street artists Banksy and Blek le Rat.[57] The programme concluded with a charity auction conducted on behalf of The Prince's Trust.[58] Among the highlights was the first public unveiling of a new work by Banksy, offered for sale during the auction.[59]
In 2016, Dreweatts conducted a charity auction of donated works on behalf of Turner's House Trust, raising the remaining £154,000 required to restore J. M. W. Turner's residence, Sandycombe Lodge,[60] which he designed himself and where he frequently spent time with his father.[61]
Notable Sales
[edit]Single-owner collections
[edit]
See also: List of country houses in the United Kingdom
- 1811 – The collection of Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley of Benham Park, mistress of Charles Francis Greville and Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.[62][63]
- 1827 – The collection of industrialist Anthony Bacon II of Elcot Park, former home of Lady Elizabeth Shelley, mother of Percy Shelley.[64]
- 1986 – The Will Trust of the radical parliamentarian and early proponent of universal male suffrage, Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet, of Ramsbury Manor and Foremarke Hall.[65]
- 1991 – The collection of Daisy Fellowes of Donnington Grove, editor of Harper's Bazaar, cousin-in-law to Winston Churchill and heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.[66]
- 2009 The collection of the late John Fane, descendant of the 8th Earl of Westmorland.[67]
- 2020 – The collection of architect Sir William Whitfield,[68] Commissioner of English Heritage and the Royal Fine Art Commission.[69]
- 2021 – The collection of the Sitwell family of Weston Hall, resulting in the rediscovery of a lost Pulcinella cartoon by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. [70]
- 2023 – The collection of Robert Kime, interior designer to King Charles III and Andrew Lloyd Webber.[71] The 3-day sale would realise a total of £9.64 million including buyer's premium.[72]
- 2026 – The collection of Dame Stephanie Shirley, businesswoman and philanthropist.[73]
- 2026 – The collection of the Hon. Patrick Lindsay, former Head of Christie's' Old Master Paintings Department,[74] and his wife, Amabel Lindsay,[75] of Holland Park.[76]
Paintings
[edit]
See also: Category:Paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- 1979 – A collection of watercolours by John Singer Sargent was offered for sale, including Marble Fountain at Aranjuez, which realised £20,500 (equivalent to approximately £103,000 in 2026).[77]
- 1984 – A View of Falmouth Harbour by Hendrick Danckerts, painter to the court of Charles II, was purchased by the David Messum Gallery on behalf of the National Maritime Museum for £19,000 (equivalent to approximately £63,000 in 2026).[78][79]
- 2009 – A pair of portraits by Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicting his two daughters, formerly hung in Moltke's Palace and later in the possession of the family of former Prime Minister David Cameron, realised more than £1 million including buyer’s premium.[80][81][82]
- 2025 – Large Quarry in Upper Bavaria by Max Beckmann, formerly in the collection of American gallery owner Richard Feigen, realised £450,000.[83][84]
Asian Art
[edit]- 2013 – An 18th-century Sino-Tibetan thangka depicting the Milarepa cult realised £450,000.[85]
- 2022 – A Chinese imperial blue-glazed and silver-gilt vase, created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor, realised £1.2 million.[86][87]
- 2025 – Katsushika Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa, an ukiyo-e woodblock print, realised £378,200 including buyer's premium.[88]
Furniture
[edit]- 1983 – A South German walnut bureau cabinet realised £94,000 (equivalent to approximately £328,000 in 2026).[89]
- 2002 – An early George III giltwood rectangular side table realised £350,000.[90]
- 2004 – One of four known Roma Cronologica micromosaic tables created by Michelangelo Barberi (1787–1867), formerly housed at Rushbrooke Hall, realised £250,000.[91]
Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper
[edit]- 2005 – A folio of watercolours by Royal Navy officer and illustrator George Raper, from the collection of the Earl of Ducie, constituting the first visual records of the Australian continent by a European artist,[92] was sold by private treaty to the National Library of Australia for £1 million.[93] At the time of the sale, this was the highest price paid by an Australian institution for a work of art.[94]
- 2008 – A photograph of [Florence Nightingale]], taken by photographer and proponent of the Women’s Suffrage movement, Lizzie Caswall Smith, in the hours shortly before Nightingale's death at her apartment near Park Lane, realised £5,500. An inscription on the reverse noted this was the only photograph Smith ever took outside her studio.[95]
- 2013 – A set of four preparatory animal studies by Philip Webb for William Morris' tapestry The Forest, formerly in the collection of Alexander Constantine Ionides before being acquired by the V&A,[96] was purchased by the National Trust for a total of £188,000.[97][98]
- 2018 – A book of hours belonging to Isabella d'Este, one of the foremost patrons of the Italian Renaissance and a possible sitter for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa[note 4] realised £421,600 including buyer's premium.[99]
Other
[edit]See also: Other casts of George Frampton's Peter Pan statue
- 2015 – The only known small stained-glass work by Willem Thybaut, depicting Hagar offering water to Ishmael, formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, realised £38,000 and was later acquired by the Rijksmuseum.[100]
- 2022 – A rare lead Mother and Child sculpture by Henry Moore, passed down by descent from Hubert de Cronin Hastings,[101] realised £400,000 including buyer's premium.[102]
- 2025 – A complete specimen of a Mammuthus primigenius, more commonly known as a woolly mammoth, offered for sale to raise funds for the restoration of Parham Park, realised £200,000.[103][104]
- 2025 – One of eight bronze sculptures of Peter Pan, designed by George Frampton, cast at the Morris Singer Foundry and originally commissioned in secret by the author J. M. Barrie, realised £350,000.[105]
- 2025 – A newly discovered diamond Fabergé pendant, which had been sewn into the hem of a dress and smuggled out of St Petersburg following the Russian Revolution, realised £35,000.[106][107]
- 2026 – A marble relief depicting Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, attributed to Simone Bianco, probably once in the possession of Cardinal Mazarin and subsequently in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House, realised £350,000 including buyer's premium.[108][note 5]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ An advertisement published in the Reading Mercury on 24 September 1881 (p. 3) lists Alexander Davis as the sole proprietor of an auction due to take place on 26 September. However, a notice published in the Reading Mercury on 1 October 1881 (p. 3) refers to "Messrs. Alexander Davis and Few" jointly conducting a sale, suggesting that the partnership was formed in late September 1881.
- ↑ Bloomsbury Auctions was founded in 1983 by Lord John Kerr, formerly of Sotheby's Books and Manuscripts department, and the publisher Frank Herrmann. Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions had previously entered into a strategic partnership in 2009 intended to broaden the range of specialist categories offered by both firms. The arrangement did not involve common ownership or financial integration, and the two auction houses continued to operate as independent businesses.
- ↑ An initial agreement had been reached in May 2017 for former Dreweatts auctioneer Mark Law and investor Gavin Alexander, through Millicent Holdings, to acquire Dreweatts and Mallett from Stanley Gibbons for £2.4 million. However, the transaction collapsed in August after Millicent Holdings was unable to secure the funds required to complete the purchase.
- ↑ The identity of the sitter has never been conclusively determined, although scholars generally accept Lisa del Giocondo as the most likely candidate, based on Giorgio Vasari's 1568 account that Francesco del Giocondo commissioned Leonardo to paint a portrait of his wife. Frank Zöllner, however, argues in his 2019 catalogue raisonné that Isabella d'Este is the most plausible alternative.
- ↑ The Cardinal Mazarin provenance has been suggested on the basis of an entry in the posthumous inventory of his collection, Inventaire de tous les meubles du cardinal Mazarin. Dressé en 1653, et publié d'après l'original, conservé dans les archives de Condé (ed. Henri d'Orléans, London, 1861, p. 380, no. 115), which corresponds with a numbered inscription on the pediment of the relief. This attribution is further supported by James Kennedy's inventory of the Earl of Pembroke's collection at Wilton House, which records that a number of works had been acquired from Cardinal Mazarin, although no itemised list of those acquisitions is provided.
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- ↑ Among the items listed in the advertisement published in The Observer were a "grand Piano Forte" by Robert Stodart, a "fine harp", "marble pier tables", "prime goose feather beds" and a cellar stocked with "fine old port, Champagne, Burgundy, Old Hock, Madeira and Sherry".
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- ↑ Nelson, Fraser (7 May 2025). "I'm Selling a £300k Mammoth Fossil to Restore My Stately Home". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
- ↑ Brundle, Lotte (12 May 2025). "A Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Is Among the Curiosities for Sale to Save Fire-ravaged Parnham Park". Country Life. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
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Further reading
[edit]- Kennedy, James (1769). A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House. Salisbury: E. Easton.
- Orléans, Henri d' (1861). Inventaire de tous les meubles du cardinal Mazarin : dressé en 1653, et publié d'après l'original, conservé dans les archives de Condé (in French). London.
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- Money, Walter (1878). Outline of the History of Donnington Priory, Near Newbury, in the County of Berks: A House of the Maturine Friars. Newbury: W. Blacket.
- Knowles, David; Hadcock, R. Neville (1953). Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. London: Longmans, Green.
- P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (1971). Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy. London: Colnaghi.
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- Stourton, James (2012). The British as Art Collectors: From the Tudors to the Present. London: Scala Publishers. ISBN 9781857597493.
- Shirley, Stephanie; Askwith, Richard; Fallwind, Virith (2018). Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story – From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist (Revised ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780241395493.
- Peill, James (2017). The English Country House. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780865653061.
External links
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