Enfilade

The London Art Week Galleries Map, drawn by Adam Gant; the map with a key to exhibitors is available here.

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From the art fair’s website:

London Art Week, Summer 2023
30 June — 7 July 2023

The UK’s leading fine arts selling event is held both in galleries around central London and as exhibitions online. This summer it features 53 participants, all internationally-acknowledged specialists in their chosen fields. Expert dealers offer museum-quality examples of decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, and works on paper of all periods from antiquity to contemporary, as well as—for the first time this year—rare books, maps, and manuscripts. The week coincides with the summer series of Old Master and Classic auctions held by Christie’s, Bonhams, and Sotheby’s. LAW provides a happy art-filled opportunity to explore the city’s major gallery areas such as St. James’s, Mayfair, and South Kensington, whilst browsing, admiring, and learning about works from antiquity to the present day. All works on show are for sale. Soak up the unique flavour of each locality and individual gallery, whilst enjoying unparalelled access to works of museum calibre as well as entry-level examples and rediscovered masters.

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A selection of gallery offerings:

Sarah Stone, Yellow-Headed Amazon Parrot (Amazona ochrocephala oratrix) with Hybrid Cockatoo, 1801, 45 × 37 cm.

Sarah Stone’s Unseen World: A Rare Collection of 18th-Century Ornithological Watercolours
Finch & Co

The exhibition presents 23 watercolours by the trailblazing 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, accompanied by a new book on the artist. Written by Errol Fuller and Craig Finch, the publication will be the first major work on Stone since Christine Jackson’s 1999 book Sarah Stone: Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds. Although long highly acclaimed for their historical and artistic importance, Sarah Stone’s paintings in private hands are rare, and this important collection has only recently come to light. Stone might be compared to her contemporary Mary Anning, the woman from Lyme Regis who kick-started the science of palaeontology. Like the activities of Anning, Sarah Stone’s work proved to be of enormous historical and scientific value.

European and British Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings, 1780–1860
James Mackinnon

Works include portrait drawings made in Italy by Jean-Baptiste Wicar, whose remarkable career encompassed fame as a neo-classical painter, collector, and dealer in Italian master paintings and drawings by Michelangelo and Raphael among others. After 1896, Wicar served as Napoleon’s Commissioner for Science and Arts in Italy.

Travel, 1600–1900
Nonesuch Gallery

We are pleased to present this second iteration of our catalogues on the theme of travel, accompanied by an exhibition coinciding with London Art Week. The Nonesuch Gallery was set up by Tom Mendel in 2020 to provide high-quality, fully researched and above all interesting pictures to established collectors, institutional collections, and first-time buyers. The gallery specialises in works on paper from the 16th to 19th centuries; with a focus on landscape and topographical subjects, particularly as related to the Grand Tour.

Giovanni Caselli and Gaetano Fumo, Set of Six Altar Candlesticks 1745–52, soft-paste porcelain, each about 50 cm high, fleur-de-lys marks in blue, £85,000.

A Survey of European Ceramics, 1500–1800
E&H Manners

Established in 1986 when Errol and Henriette left Christie’s after working in the Chinese and European ceramic departments. Henry joined in 2015. We deal in ceramics, glass and enamels of the world from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. We focus on European pottery and porcelain of the 17th and 18th century and East Asian, Middle-Eastern and Mexican colonial period wares and ceramics of the Arts and Crafts and Modern Movement. We take pride in the quality and rarity of the pieces that we offer, many of which are now in the great museums and collections of the world.

The Chinese Export Interior
Thomas Coulborn & Sons (digital participant)

Thomas Coulborn & Sons has a reputation for producing eclectic collections of exceptional furniture and works of art. The stock is centred by superb examples of English furniture and works of art ranging from the Tudor period through to Regency, interwoven with stellar items from the Continent. Jonathan Coulborn has a particular interest in objects which reflect the historic intersection of cultures and design. In recent years we have become one of the world’s leading dealers in Chinese export furniture.

Face to Face: Portraits Spanning Five Centuries
Moretti Fine Art

The Galleria Moretti was founded in 1999 in Florence by Fabrizio Moretti. It opened to the public and private collectors with the inaugural exhibition From Bernardo Daddi to Giorgio Vasari and immediately distinguished itself with its specialization in Italian old masters paintings. Moretti Fine Art opened in London in 2005 and it became a point of reference for collectors who seek a confidential and discreet approach. In 2022, the gallery moved in the new building in Duke Street, St. James’s.

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A sampling of particular works on offer:

Attributed to Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine, Portrait of the Violinist Jacques Pierre J. Rode, ca. 1810, oil on canvas, 92 × 72 cm.

• Antonio Gionima, Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna, ca. 1720–25, oil on canvas, 156 × 198 cm. Offered by Fondantica di Tiziana Sassoli (digital participant) as part of a selection of Emilian Old Master paintings.

• Thomas Bardwell, Portrait of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 1757, oil on canvas, 137 × 168 cm. Offered by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.

• Paul Sandby, Capriccio Landscape, 1792, pencil and watercolour. Offered by Abbott & Holder, the drawing once belonged to King Willam IV (and then to his illegitimate son, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence).

• Attributed to Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine, Portrait of the Violinist Jacques Pierre J. Rode, ca. 1810, oil on canvas, 92 × 72 cm. Offered by Maurizio Nobile Fine Art (digital participant).