About Us
We offer a customised advisory service to our clients that gives them an enjoyable collecting experience tailored to their specific needs and interests. Central to all of our work is our core belief in being independent, transparent and trustworthy. We provide
- independent and strategic advice to private sellers, buyers and institutions
- transparency and discretion
- scholarly research and an in-depth understanding of art market conditions
- art management and curatorial services for private collections, through focussed purchases, exhibition loans, conservation, framing, hanging and lighting
- a full range of valuation services, such as probate and insurance
- tax & heritage solutions, including Offers in Lieu of Tax (AIL), Cultural Gifts, conditional exemptions and estate planning strategies
FOUNDER
Grant Ford has extensive international reach, having cultivated strong and trusted relationships with international collectors, specialists and institutional curators over a career spanning forty years.
In his thirty-year career at Sotheby’s, as Head of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art, Grant achieved many significant world-record auction and artist results. Many of his sales dominated the market across several specialist categories, including Scottish, Irish, Marine and Sporting Art. In the past ten years, Grant Ford Ltd has handled a broad range of artworks, including Old Masters, 18th Century British art and 19th and 20th century British and European art, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian Art.
Grant is a senior painting specialist for the BBC’s long-running Antiques Roadshow. He is a regular guest lecturer in the UK, Ireland and North America, is an Accredited Lecturer for The Arts Society and has written extensively for a wide range of publications.
