The Whitfield Fine Art Gallery is an art gallery in Mayfair

Mayfair

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, London

London

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, owned and founded by Clovis Whitfield

Clovis Whitfield

Clovis Whitfield is an art historian and art dealer based in London, where he runs Whitfield Fine Art. He is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers....

 in 1979. The gallery specialises in Italian Old Master paintings.

History

The gallery was founded in 1979 located on Old Bond Street in London and recently moved to a new 2000 square feet (185.8 m²) space on the first floor of 23 Dering Street in 2009.

Whitfield Fine Art takes part in a number of art fairs worldwide, including the European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht

Maastricht

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, Collezionismo Internazionale a Palazzo Venezia Rome

Rome

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 andBiennale Internazionale dell‘ Antiquariato, Florence

Florence

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. The gallery is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers

Society of London Art Dealers

The Society of London Art Dealers is an organization founded in 1932 for the promotion of dealers of fine art and antiquities in London. It is a founder member of the British Art Market Federation and a member of the Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art ....

.

The gallery has sold to many of the great museums of the world including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....

; J. Paul Getty Museum

J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California...

, Malibu; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna; Museo del Prado

Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of...

, Madrid; Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000...

; Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indianapolis Museum of Art

The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum, which underwent a $74 million expansion in 2005, is located on a campus on the near northwest area outside downtown Indianapolis, northwest of Crown Hill Cemetery.The...

; Kunsthistorisches Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum

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, Vienna; Blanton Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly under the College of Fine Arts, the museum director now reports to the University's...

, Houston; Kunsthaus

Kunsthaus

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, Zurich; The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp and the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo among many others.

Key personnel:

• Clovis Whitfield
  Clovis Whitfield
  Clovis Whitfield is an art historian and art dealer based in London, where he runs Whitfield Fine Art. He is a member of the Society of London Art Dealers....
  
  , Owner

2010

Claudia Carr. Under the branch of an echo (6 September - 1 October 2010)

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...

's Friends & Foes (27 May - 23 July 2010)

Ilona Szalay (15 April - 14 May 2010)

Theodore Mendez

Theodore Mendez

Theodore Mendez 1934-1997 was an abstract artist who taught at Camberwell College of Arts in London for over thirty years. After attending Strand School, he entered Camberwell College of Arts in 1950 as a student, where his contemporaries included Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow, Roy...

, The late Fifties and early Sixties (3–26 February 2010)

2009

Important Old Masters in Monaco. (September- October)

Old Masters in a Modern Light. (June–July)

Thomas Nathaniel Davies

Thomas Nathaniel Davies

Thomas Nathaniel Davies was a Welsh artist and teacher, born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Shunning a promising early career with Cardiff City Football Club, he enrolled at Cardiff College of Art in 1939, where he was taught and befriended by the painter Ceri Richards.His studies were...

: Retrospective. (May)

Publications

"Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...

's Friends & Foes", exh. cat., London 2010

Theodore Mendez

Theodore Mendez

Theodore Mendez 1934-1997 was an abstract artist who taught at Camberwell College of Arts in London for over thirty years. After attending Strand School, he entered Camberwell College of Arts in 1950 as a student, where his contemporaries included Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow, Roy...

, The late Fifties and early Sixties, exh. cat., London 2010

Important Old Masters in Monaco, exh. cat., London 2009

Old Masters in a Modern Light exh. cat., London 2009

Thomas Nathaniel Davies

Thomas Nathaniel Davies

Thomas Nathaniel Davies was a Welsh artist and teacher, born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Shunning a promising early career with Cardiff City Football Club, he enrolled at Cardiff College of Art in 1939, where he was taught and befriended by the painter Ceri Richards.His studies were...

: Retrospective. exh. cat., London 2009

The Grand Gallery, exh. cat., London 2008

External links

• Whitfield Fine Art Gallery website
• The Society of London Art Dealers
• TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair
  The European Fine Art Fair
  The European Fine Art Fair is an annual art fair, organised by The European Fine Art Foundation in the MECC in Maastricht, Netherlands. It was first held in 1975.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Master Paintings Week
• Biennale Internazionale dell‘ Antiquariato, Florence