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Adam Busiakiewicz

22 days

BBC Midlands Today coverage of the Missing Henry VIII Portrait rediscovered in Warwick Shire Hall thanks to @X

Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII - hanging in a West Midland council hall - to be identified as a fa...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

Tonight is the night that Katherine Parr is offered at @Sothebys - how much will she fetch, and where will she go? The whole sale is live streamed for free on the website, join us to find out!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

For Tudor fans out there, this rather fascinating oak panel featuring the insignias of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon is coming up for sale @Sothebys this month. Not too dissimilar to the Cleves panel found by @JonathanFoyle and now at @hevercastle

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

Antique shops certainly aren't as good as they used to be... Bury St. Edmunds, c.1860

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

To celebrate an upcoming podcast, here is my lute arrangement of the music that appears in the fifteenth cent. stained glass of the magnificent Beauchamp Chapel @StMarysWarwick @ourwarwickshire

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 months

I’ve written a blog dedicated to an overlooked Tudor portrait of King Henry VIII which was once part of Ralph Sheldon’s famous set at Weston House. Completed in the 1590s, this painting at Warwick Shire Hall ( @Warwickshire_CC ) should be better known!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 months

@NPGLondon @Sothebys The Warwick Henry VIII painting has the same arched top and is framed in a corresponding frame as other surviving examples. Furthermore, an engraving of the Weston House frieze shows the very same composition for Henry as found in the Warwick painting.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

This month's @BurlingtonMag features my debut article on a unrecorded photograph of Ellen Terry by Julia Margaret Cameron. The photo happened to fall out of a book whilst I was scouring through a private library in 2019.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

30 days

A short blog providing an update on the progress of research regarding Ralph Sheldon’s Portrait of Henry VIII, including new photos and evidence.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

Awkward Victorians wearing genuine historic armour has become my favourite genre of photograph. http://t.co/ACVCyHUapz

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

I’ve recorded myself playing a dance called ‘Mr Lane’s Maggot’ that appears in a late seventeenth century painting coming up for sale @bonhams1793

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 months

The local Warwickshire politician and tapestry maker Ralph Sheldon’s set of 22 portraits of Kings, Queens and international figures was dispersed in 1781. They are distinctive for having rounded tops. Here are surviving images of Wolsey, Richard III and the Earl of Essex.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

As the @Sothebys London Old Master Paintings Day Sale is about to be published, I wanted to share this rare gem of Mrs Dorothy Jordan in breeches playing Shakespeare’s Rosalinda. Beechey’s portrait might be one of the last theatrical portraits of the sitter left in private hands.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 months

Chardin’s Melon realises €26.73m (inc. fees.) over its €8m-€12m estimate at Christie’s Paris. An extraordinary price.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

This early Portrait of Henry VIII is coming up for sale at @ChristiesInc later this month. Love the visible pentimento in the hat. A change of fashion perhaps? Est. £25k-£35k.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 months

Congratulations to @WaddesdonManor for uploading some beautifully detailed pictures to their website. I’ve lost at least an hour looking through them. Here’s a ‘Studio of Rembrandt’, a very captivating picture despite the attribution.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

Some highlights from the @Sothebys Old Master Paintings and Drawings sales will be on display in London until the 13th June. These examples are from the Right Hon. Earl of Jersey’s collection, including Catherine Parr, the Earl of Essex and some exquisite drawings by Peter Lely.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

Exciting news that @Sothebys will be offering one of the finest versions of Titian’s ‘Venus and Adonis’ on 7 December 2022 (est. £8 - 12 million).

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

‘The Countess of Pembroke’s Paradise‘ by Holborne. Combining #ArtinIsolation with #LuteinIsolation @WiltonHousePMH @NPGLondon

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

The auction house @Sothebys have just announced the sale of another fine renaissance portrait in London on 25th March 2021. No estimate provided yet.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

A particularly beautiful and melancholic Emma Hamilton head-study by George Romney which is coming up in the @Sothebys Old Master Paintings Day Sale. One of those paintings that truly feels like it could come alive at any moment…

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 months

A recent discovery in the upcoming @sothebys Old Masters Day sale is this unpublished study by Mary Beale, showing one of her son’s probably Bartholomew. IR images show that it was finished off by a later hand (in the drapery). Full catalogue note here:

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

Splendid unattributed portrait by Michael Dahl (?) sold yesterday at Tiberius Auktionen. What a frame! It made €6,000 (hammer)

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

The @Sothebys Old Master Paintings Day Sale is now live. My personal highlight is this plein air study of a Highland loch with ghillies by Edwin Landseer. It was sold from his posthumous sale in 1874 and is offered now with an estimate of £12-18k.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 months

I’ve recorded a new podcast focusing on the life of Elizabeth Hamilton (1720-1800), 1st Countess of Warwick - her biography has never been treated in any meaningful way - (1/6)

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

The best school archaeology find ever? 1919, Millbrook, Bedfordshire.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

Some painterly details from Titian’s Ecce Homo, a late work which feels centuries ahead of its time. As exciting as any impressionistic Bacon or Freud in my opinion. Will be offered in the upcoming @Sothebys NY Old Master Paintings sale on Thursday.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

This is what a 5,000 year old Bog-Oak lute sounds like.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

Free exhibition - @ChatsworthHouse have lent their magnificent Reynolds of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, with her daughter to @Sothebys London for a special exhibition of portraits which runs until 4th July. Get closer to this masterpiece than ever before!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

The Travelled Monkey, by E.H Landseer. How have I gone so long without knowing this existed?! http://t.co/TKNwwmcSh5

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

As the @Sothebys London Old Masters Evening Sale has just been published online, I thought I’d draw attention to this immaculate portrait of Lady Catherine Bateson by Sir Thomas Lawrence. This unlined canvas even has an abandoned chalk study on the reverse.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

An unhealthy amount of Dutch armoured portraits. Well done to @mauritshuis for getting things out of storage!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

Talking and Lute-ing in front of Holbein's The Ambassadors @NationalGallery

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

Remember that time when King James I made a cameo appearance in that fantastic Mughal manuscript? @FreerSackler

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

@sixteenthCgirl Ah yes, time to bring out this photograph from my phd research at the local record office. It was a filthy but extremely interesting time.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

My pick from the upcoming @dorotheum sale is this fascinating Self Portrait identified as the porcelain painter Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (1772–1855). A rather interesting evocation of an artist at work! Est. €12k - €18k.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

An accomplished lady lutenist, one of my favourite details of the upcoming @Sothebys New York Part 1 Sale. Such a prominent empty and open lute case behind it, what might it mean? Answers below, please!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

The Duke of Buccleuch’s Holbein of Sir Nicholas Carew Conserved for @HRP_palaces exhibition.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

30 days

This includes the identification of the painting’s original inscription, now covered with overpaint, which is another characteristic of the Sheldon set.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

A finely carved fourteenth century knight patiently praying in a dark corner of St Nicholas Church, Montgomery.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

The @NPGLondon have rediscovered this outstanding Gainsborough. Yet, they've got the instrument wrong. I've summarised my thoughts here...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

This can’t have been taken on Saturday morning, you sold that table at Sotheby’s for £1.6m in 2015, remember? That carpet is now missing from the room too.

Warwick Castle

@WarwickCastle

4 years

The Cedar Room looking very regal this morning.👑 #lovegreatbritain

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 months

The Cafe Mozart Waltz by Anton Karas, in preparation for my career as a busker on the backstreets of Vienna when the wheels fall off this journey into Old Masters…

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

10 years

The survival of these 15th century over-shoes (pattens) never fails to astound. @WallaceMuseum #MedievalShoes http://t.co/v9xwKtR80Q

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

Completely blown away by this lutenist that is coming up for sale in Cologne. Sitter is unidentified...how wonderful to speculate if this is a lost portrait of someone like SL Weiss?

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

Thrilled that the British Art Journal have published my article on the artist John Westbrooke Chandler (1763/4-1807). Included is a checklist of works (most useful).

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

There are some extremely beautiful and strange pictures coming up for sale @dorotheum later this month. This gardener by Giovan Battista Cartei is my pick.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

New Blog: The Story of a Doorway from Rubens's House (?)

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

Will any UK cultural institution be willing to find £50m to keep Joshua Reynolds's Omai in the country? (ps. It sold for a mere £9.4m (hammer) at Sotheby's in 2001)

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

Podcast: My longest rambling interview yet! Collections in the Spotlight - Warwick Castle via @Chambearlin

Collections in the Spotlight Podcast - Warwick Castle Part 2

We discover more treasures in the Warwick Castle Collection with local art historian Adam Busiakiewicz and find out how the castle inhabitants extended the b...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

A snippet of melancholic Dowland from this evenings talk @WallaceMuseum with @patdunachie

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

An enchanting view of Northgate St, Warwick, as David Cox saw it in the 1820s. @OurWarwickshire @StMarysWarwick

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

The morning commute soothed by these exquisite watercolours of Vesuvius stone samples painted by Pietro Fabris in 1776 for Sir William Hamilton. Recently uploaded on the fantastic @watercolour_tww

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

The next section of Bach's Toccata, but on the lute...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

For the early birds - The @sothebys Old Master Paintings Evening Sale has just been published online! One of the highlights is this outstanding Saint Sebastian by Rubens, which carries an estimate of £4 - £6m

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

This is a rare portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds’ favourite niece Mary Palmer, Marchioness of Thomond. Long known for being a copyist, this particular canvas of Lord Eliot coming up @Sothebys bears an old inscription on the back identifying the work as hers.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

Felt like a rather historic day today. Firstly, that I got to play the lute in Haslemere, the spiritual home of the Early Music revival in Britain. Secondly, that it was to a live audience - the first time since Feb/Mar 2020! @TheArtsSociety_

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

One of the most serene watercolours I’ve ever encountered by Thomas Rowlandson on the fabulous @watercolour_tww . Now part of @CourtauldGall collection.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

Canaletto, Wright of Derby, Turner and Constable all came to draw and paint @WarwickCastle

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

Lots of interesting pictures in the upcoming Old Masters sale @Sothebys

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

@TheRestHistory @dcsandbrook @holland_tom Dear @dcsandbrook and. @holland_tom , I’m rather surprised you’ve left out John Lambert (1619-1684), captured here by Robert Walker in @NPGLondon . A little more niche, perhaps.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

Lute at the ready for today's talk @NationalGallery

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 months

Venice, painted by the British artist David Roberts, R.A. (1796–1864) for his daughter’s 33rd birthday. So good that it doesn’t even need a frame. Coming up in the @Sothebys OMP Evening Sale.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

Canaletto’s drawing of Warwick Castle coming up for sale @ChristiesInc in Jan ($800k-$1.2m est) read about it here...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 months

@girl_hermes @History_Lauren It’s a great story! @AManningHistory and myself mentioned it on our podcast detailing the life of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick

Richard Beauchamp - Warwick's Greatest Medieval Earl - Documentary...

A podcast documentary describing the magnificent life of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382-1439), written and produced by Adam Busiakiewicz & Aar...

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

Miraculous draughtsmanship allows a human face to appear from a scrap of paper. P.Lely, E.Seymour, @britishmuseum http://t.co/cYTrsircTo

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

Ruminating over a very fine lute in @StMarysWarwick . This fine photograph by the talented @lewiscopson , for my new @TheArtsSociety_ lecturing brochure.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

On this day in 1628: Sir Fulke Greville's funeral in @StMarysWarwick @cbnewham

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

Exciting news that @ChristiesInc London will be selling Leonardo's Drawing of a Bear in their upcoming July sale. Estimated at £8m - £12m. Formerly owned by Thomas Lawrence too!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

There is a beautiful display of highlights from the Grasset Collection currently on display @Sothebys in New Bond Street. Still lifes by De Heem, Van Kessel and Beert alongside floral displays and contemporary art. Running till 14 Sept.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

A glorious time had adding sound to Holbein's Ambassadors at the @NationalGallery this afternoon. (This piece containing lyrics supposedly penned by François I).

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

Blog: Charles's Queen Gets the Chop

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

9 years

Stunning Winterhalter of Queen Victoria and her cousin in the RC. Tropical colours to brighten up this rainy Monday. http://t.co/qLDWzkQf7s

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

I'm giving a free lute concert in Shrewsbury this Saturday with @TheCCT

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

The most mysterious painting of the @Sothebys Old Master Paintings Day Sale is this rediscovered work by the elusive Monogrammist IS, a Rembrandtian artist of poss. German origin who may have travelled in the Baltic countries and Scandinavia. All theories welcome on this idea!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

4 years

This Elizabethan looking gentleman made $40,625 over an estimate of $300-500 yesterday @skinnerinc . Reminds me a little of John Donne, or the Earl or Essex perhaps. Larkin’s portraits come to mind too... #sleeperalert

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

Currently day dreaming about how this rare unlined Thomas Lawrence will appear once conserved. Dating to the 1790s, this was painted when he was in his twenties. Can you imagine? Coming up at @Sothebys New York.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

Come and visit the galleries of @Sothebys London to see one of the most exciting and rare pictures by William Hogarth in the upcoming Old Master sales. This is the last major satirical painting by the artist left in private hands. More to be announced soon!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

A melancholic lutenist, in a very fine tortoiseshell frame, coming up for sale @dorotheum

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

1 year

@NicolaTallis @Sothebys The portrait will be in a special Summer Highlights display, which runs @Sothebys London from Tuesday 30th May until Tuesday 13th June. Completely free, all welcome to come and see her!

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

Delighted to announce my first talk @NationalGallery in April. (Live lute music included!)

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

Daphne's transformation into a laurel tree...one of my favourite details found on a door within the spectacular Residenz, Munich.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

Well done to @WarwickCastle for having one of their pictures cleaned, what an improvement. #paintingconservation

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

7 years

Thrilled to announce my second talk @NationalGallery this September.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

8 years

I'm giving a lecture on Sir Fulke Greville in January. Inigo Jones designed his London home.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

Blog: Armour for Boys - some thoughts about the outstanding Van Dyck coming up for sale @Sothebys

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

6 years

I once had the great pleasure of visiting this picture, whilst researching the armour in it for my MA dissertation. A very fine Greenwich armour, if it ever existed!

Van Dyck's portraits of future Charles II and sister go up for sale

Works estimated to fetch £2.6m-£3.8m are highlights of London auction at Sotheby’s

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

2 years

Some of my favourite details from a recently rediscovered Self Portrait of David Martin (1737-1798) coming up in the @Sothebys Old Master Paintings July Day Sale. It might be the same portrait described as being given by the artist to Allan Ramsay.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

3 years

The auction house @CheffinsFineArt will be selling Thomas Gainsborough's earliest self-portrait later this month.

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

This lady organist, sporting clothing that all organists should aspire to, is my pick from the @Sothebys OMP day sale. Yours for a mere £8-12k #earlymusic

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Adam Busiakiewicz

@Adam_FineArt

5 years

This fine musical scene, attributed to Ambrosius Benson, is my pick from the @ChristiesInc OMP sale. It must be the companion to the fabulous and very curious Benson in @kunstmuseumbs Would look wonderful after a delicate clean!