In Conversation – Sold! Year of the Dealer

This in conversation event will explore Sold! Year of the Dealer – a research project exploring the role of dealers in the biographies of museum objects.

Hosted by the Museums and Galleries History Group, this event considers the hidden stories of museum objects via their journeys from the cut-and-thrust of the antiques trade to the custodianship of the nation’s great collections.

Professor Mark Westgarth (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) and Dr Caroline Cornish (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) will be discussing the latest chapter in Mark's Sold! Year of the Dealer project – a series of digital trails highlighting the role of dealers in the biographies of objects at five UK museums.

The Year of the Dealer project draws together several years of research, including museum and dealers’ archives, auction catalogue records and oral history interviews, to bring these previously little-known stories to life.

Led by Mark Westgarth, the project is a collaboration with The Bowes Museum, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Preston Park Museum, Temple Newsam and the V&A.

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This is the fourth in a series of online Museums and Galleries History Group In Conversation events.

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C. Charles' antique shop, Brook Street, London, c.1900. Image courtesy of Antique Dealer Research Project, University of Leeds.