Adrian Biddell Fine Art Ltd

European Painting 1850 to 1930

Adrian Biddell Fine Art offers advice on buying and selling art either privately or through auction. Drawing on over three decades of experience at the top of the art market, Adrian has a wealth of knowledge of 19th century European, Impressionist and Modern art.

Adrian’s particular expertise is in the national schools and artistic communities active across Europe between 1850 and 1930. As head of Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings department from 1999 to 2015, he developed a programme of trail blazing specialist sales that promoted the depth and breadth of artists working in all corners of the Continent. From Scandinavia to Spain, Belgium to the Bosphorus, Adrian achieved an unprecedented number of world auction records and established Sotheby’s as market leader in the field.

He formed Adrian Biddell Fine Art Ltd in the spring of 2017, since when he has brokered a range of works direct to institutions and private collectors and overseen every aspect of selling works for clients either at auction or via dealers and galleries. These range from the work of Akseli Gallen-Kallela in Finland to Joaquín Sorolla in Spain, together with examples from other countries across Europe including France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

European Artists of particular interest include:

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finland
Helene Schjerfbeck, Finland
Hugo Simberg, Finland
Edvard Munch, Norway
Harald Sohlberg, Norway
Frits Thaulow, Norway
Carl Larsson, Sweden
August Strindberg, Sweden
Anders Zorn, Sweden
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Denmark
Michael Ancher, Denmark
Peder Severin Krøyer, Denmark
George Breitner, Netherlands
Isaac Israëls, Netherlands
Jan Toorop, Netherlands
William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgium
James Ensor, Belgium
Fernand Khnopff, Belgium
Lotte Laserstein, Germany
Max Liebermann, Germany
Franz von Stuck, Germany
Albin Egger-Lienz, Austria
Max Klinger, Austria
Maximilian Lenz, Austria
Emil Filla, Czech Republic
Frantisek Kupka, Czech Republic
Mihály Munkácsy, Hungary
József Rippl-Rónai, Hungary
Arnold Böcklin, Switzerland
Ferdinand Hodler, Switzerland
Carlos Schwabe, Switzerland
Gustave Courbet, France
Gustave Moreau, France
Théodore Rousseau, France
Giovanni Segantini, Italy
Telemaco Signorini, Italy
Federico Zandomeneghi, Italy
Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Spain
Joaquín Sorolla, Spain
Ignacio Zuloaga, Spain

Together with the many other outstanding painters working on the Continent during so many years of unprecedented cultural change.