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Alastair has acted as Head of the British & European Art sales in London since 2018, contributing to the success of the department’s many and varied sales. Alastair began his career at Christies in 2011 and led the 19th Century European & Orientalist Art auctions in Christie’s South Kensington to their highest results between 2014-2017. He played a significant role in Christie’s Amsterdam auctions in 2017.

Alastair is responsible for appraising and promoting European paintings and developing top client relationships throughout Europe, with a particular emphasis on Scandinavia and the Nordic regions. Alastair has a wealth of knowledge in this arena and has been involved with record breaking results for Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammershøi and Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Alastair has established an extensive international network of collectors and museum curators. He has negotiated many private sales within this category. Alastair works closely with the Christie’s international team, having sourced business for auctions in London, Paris, Amsterdam and New York.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Alastair worked in a commercial art gallery exhibiting at Art Fairs throughout the UK. Alastair holds a M.Litt in Theology of Arts and the Imagination from the University of St. Andrews.

Aleksandra joined the Russian Art department at Christie's in 2012 having previously worked for a number of art galleries, museums and auction houses in Russia and England. Aleksandra has a strong background in Restoration and Art History having completed her two MAs in Fine Art and Restoration at the St Petersburg Academy of Art & Design and in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.

Aleksandra is responsible for securing key consignments for Russian paintings and overseas cataloguing, researching and catalogue production for Russian pictures offered at auction and for private sales across the company. Over the past decade Aleksandra has contributed to the phenomenal success of the Russian Art category at Christie’s and has been instrumental in achieving many world record prices, most notably uncovering Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s masterpiece Still life with lilac, which was sold for £9.3 million (London, 2019) to became the most expensive Russian painting ever sold in a Russian sale.

With twenty years’ experience in valuing Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Peter Brown has overseen sales which have ensured Christie’s dominance of this market. As head of department, Peter has led a team which has achieved many world auction records for Victorian artists including those for Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt and Leighton. He was closely involved in securing and selling the Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures in 2003, which sold for a total of £17 million – the largest ever auction of Victorian art to date, in which 65 auction records were achieved. In July 2013 he co-ordinated an auction of Victorian Pictures that realised £22,201,975 /$33,547,184 /€25,598,878, the highest total ever achieved for the category. The top price was paid for a masterpiece by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898), Love Among the Ruins, which sold for £14,845,875/$22,432,117/€17,117,294, setting a new world record price for the artist at auction (estimate: £3 – 5 million) and becoming the most expensive Pre-Raphaelite painting ever sold at auction. In June 2000, he discovered an unsigned and previously unidentified work by Sir John Everett Millais. Estimated at £60-80,000, the picture sold for £157,750. (Christie’s, London, 14 June 2000, lot 11). Most recently he helped orchestrate the sale of the Setton Collection in December 2020 which saw many pictures double their pre-sale estimates and achieve world record prices. Peter Brown holds a B.A. from Durham University, and is a graduate of Christie’s Education. He has worked with Christie’s since 1992 and is a Senior Director and International Specialist.

Laura Mathis joined the 19th Century European Art Department in 2015 and has been the New York department’s Head of Sale since 2018. She is a graduate of NYU's Department of Art History and began her career working at Richard L Feigen and Company in New York, one of the city’s premier Old Master and 19th Century galleries. Following this, she received her MA with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and returned to New York to begin her work at Christie’s. She is responsible for sourcing, cataloguing and promoting pictures for the department’s bi-annual sales and works closely with Christie’s international department on sales at other sale sites as well. Laura has a particular academic interest in Scandinavian, Symbolist, and Art Nouveau painting.

Melody is responsible for expanding the market and interest of Western Classical Art in Asia, focusing on the International highlights tour and educational panels in Hong Kong, Taipei and mainland China. She joined Christie’s through the Graduate Trainee Program in 2018, and officially joined Classic Art Group in 2019. Melody was involved in number of major sales such as the Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, Leonardo da Vinci The Head of a Bear, and rare manuscripts by Isaac Newton.