Grant Ford Limited

International Specialists in European, British and Irish Art

Trusted International Fine Art Advisors, Brokers and Curators

Grant Ford Ltd is based in Marlborough, Wiltshire and was founded by Grant Ford in 2016.

The company takes pride in offering an effortless and enjoyable collecting experience and provides a uniquely customised and tailored service to meet the specific needs of every client.

• We advise and represent private sellers, buyers and institutions.
• Specialist knowledge and research, impartial advice, absolute discretion and trust, attention to detail and wise stalwart guidance are the company’s key foundations to assisting clients at all levels, whether selling, buying or nurturing family collections.
• We manage and curate private collections and provide clients with a regular valuation service.
• The company works alongside leading international art and antiques specialists and consultants, looking after and representing all aspects of clients’ art and antiques collecting.

Founder

Grant Ford is a well-known international fine art specialist, trusted advisor, curator and representative of prestigious art collections. Grant has a substantial international reach, having cultivated strong and trusted relationships with collectors and specialists in many fields, including curators, authors, restorers, framers and valuers. During his career he has travelled extensively visiting clients and exhibitions worldwide.

• Specialist in 19th & 20th Century British, Irish & European Art.
• Broad knowledge of the art market; interested in all art related subjects.
• Senior specialist for BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
• Worked for thirty years at Sotheby’s (1986-2016).
• At Sotheby’s, Grant dominated the market in many specialist areas and categories: Head of Sotheby’s Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art Department (2001-2016) and major sales of Scottish, Irish, Marine and Sporting Art.
• Senior Director at Sotheby’s, responsible for British & Irish Art Post 1850.
• As both an experienced specialist and auctioneer, Grant was active in realising many significant world record auctions and artist results.
• Regular guest lecturer in the United Kingdom, Ireland, USA, Canada and elsewhere.
• Has written extensively for multiple publications.

Artists of a particular interest:

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Kenneth Armitage, Robert Bevan, Edward Coley Burnre-Jones,  Lynn Chadwick, George Clausen, John Craxton, Edgar Degas, Water Howell Deverell, Jean Dubuffet, John Duncan Fergusson, Harold Gilman, Barbara Hepworth, George Leslie Hunter, Frederic Lord Leighton, Henri Martin, John Everett Millais, Albert Moore, Roderic O’Conor, William Orpen, Samuel John Peploe, Camille Pissarro, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, Alfred Munnings, John Piper, Walter Sickert, Alfred Sisley, Stanley Spencer,  Philip Wilson Steer, James Tissot, John William Waterhouse, George Frederick Watts, Jack Butler Yeats

Schools & categories of particular interest

Aesthetism, Bloomsbury, Camden Town, Impressionist, Irish, Marine, Modern British, Newlyn, Post-Impressionism, Post-War British, Pre-Raphaelites, Romanticism, Sculpture, Scottish Colourists, Sporting, St Ives,  Symbolism, 20th Century British, Victorian & Edwardian, Vorticism