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Oil portrait of James Christie, attributed to Benjamin Vandergucht. James Christie (1730–1803) was a Scottish auctioneer who founded the auction house Christie's.
James Christie holds his first sale in his permanent saleroom in Pall Mall, London. National treasures. 1778. James Christie negotiates the sale of the art collection of Sir Robert Walpole to Catherine the Great of Russia. It is now part of the Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg.
Sep 8, 2016 · As Christie’s auction house celebrates 250 years of wielding the gavel, Martin Oldham tracks down its founder James Christie, a man who turned the humble auction into the spectacle it remains to this day. From the Autumn 2016 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA.
Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [3]
Dec 12, 2016 · Born in Perth in 1730, James Christie travelled to London following a short spell as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, which he left in about 1750. He joined an auctioneering firm in the capital, run by a man called Annesley, before setting up on his own in Pall Mall.
Christie’s, the world's oldest fine art auctioneer, has sold fine art, furniture, jewellery and wine since James Christie conducted the first sale in London on 5 December 1766.
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Mr James Christie (1730-1803) became London’s premier auctioneer in the 1760s and he was still at the top of his profession at his death in 1803. This brief history of the man and his auction house outlines his early career in Covent Garden, the setting up of his own auction rooms during the 1760s and some of his early successes.
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