British Drawings & Watercolours

Contact

• London

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    Harriet Drummond

    International Head of Department

    Harriet Drummond

    International Head of Department

    hdrummond@christies.com+44 207 389 2278

    Harriet Drummond has been a member of the British Drawings team since 1986, Head of Department since 1997 and International Head since 2009. Many new auction records have been set under her leadership, including world record prices for Edward Burne-Jones’s Love Among the Ruins, J.M.W. Turner’s The Blue Rigi, John Constable’s Helmingham Dell, Suffolk, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Pandora, Samuel Palmer’s Oak tree and beech, Lullingstone Park, John Ruskin’s Bellinzona, Switzerland, and John Martin’s The Destruction of the Pharoah’s Host. In July 2018, Harriet made a new auction record for Fuseli with The Faerie Queene appears to Prince Arthur, from Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene,’ and a new record for a work on paper, the successful result of J.W Waterhouse, Flora. She has also been involved in many highly successful collection sales including The Bute Collection of Watercolors by Paul Sandby, British Watercolors from the Golden Age from the Collection of Monsieur and Madame Gérald Bauer, The Goyder Collection, Christopher Wood: A Very Victorian Eye, The Collection of Nicolette Wernick, Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer, and The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S Eliot. In 2016, Harriet was a key specialist in the highly successful sale and exhibition, Defining British Art, which was held to celebrate Christie's 250th anniversary and realized nearly £100 million. Harriet has also been involved in a number of highly successful sales in New York including Turner Watercolors from the Chicago Wood Prince Family to Edward Lears from The Estate of Christian B. Peper, and The Distinguished Private Collection which included Gainsborough’s Portrait of Charlotte, 4th Duchess of Marlborough. She is a graduate of Durham University and Christie’s Education and an active member of The Turner Society Committee.

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    Annabel Kishor

    Specialist

    Annabel Kishor

    Specialist

    akishor@christies.com+44 (0)20 7389 2709

    Having completed a BA in History of Art at University College London, and an MA in 18th Century British and French Drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Annabel worked in the Prints and Drawings department at the British Museum, and at another major auction house. She has been working in the British Drawings department at Christie’s since 2015, working on both the Early British and Victorian sales. She has also been involved in single-owner collection sales including Stunners and The Collection of William Drummond, and was Head of Sale for The Astor Collection from Tillypronie, Aberdeenshire.

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    Noël Annesley

    Senior Consultant

    Noël Annesley

    Senior Consultant

    nannesley@christies.com+44 (0)20 7389 2405

    Noël Annesley joined Christie’s in 1964. Fifty-four years later he is still working there, and in September 2016 he organised the sale at King Street of the collection of Brian Sewell, his first boss, who had left Christie’s in 1967 and gone on to become a celebrated journalist. Together they set up the department of Prints and Drawings. Over the years Noël has made some exciting discoveries. One of them, a magnificent drawing by the early 16th Century Venetian artist Sebastiano del Piombo, now belonging to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, was included in the exhibition ‘Michelangelo and Sebastiano’ at the National Gallery, London, earlier this year. It was in the Michelangelo drawings exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, November 2017-February 2018. Noël took his first auction in 1967, and over the years achieved record prices for Titian, Canaletto, Michelangelo and Raphael. He organised and conducted the celebrated sales of Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth in 1984 and 1987, and Old Master Prints in 1986. In 2007 he sold Turner’s famous watercolour ‘The Blue Rigi’ for £5.8 million. It is now in the Tate Gallery. He served as Deputy Chairman of Christie’s International plc from 1992-2000, and was a long serving Trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and a Governor of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

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    Phoebe Tronzo

    Cataloguer, Sale Coordinator

    Phoebe Tronzo

    Cataloguer, Sale Coordinator

    ptronzo@christies.com+44 207 752 3234

• Hong Kong

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    Georgina Hilton

    Head of Classic Art, Asia Pacific

    Georgina Hilton

    Head of Classic Art, Asia Pacific

    ghilton@christies.com+852 2978 6862

    Georgina is responsible for developing the market and taste for European Classical Art across Asia. Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2019, Georgina was in the Old Master Paintings department in London. She is also a global Christie’s Auctioneer, taking flagship sales in Hong Kong, New York and London.

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    Melody Lin

    Liaison, Classic Art Group, Asia Pacific

    Melody Lin

    Liaison, Classic Art Group, Asia Pacific

    melodylin@christies.com+852 2978 6850

    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.