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Christopher Hartop has been an independent art adviser since 1999. He has nearly thirty years’ experience in the antique silver world. He has negotiated some of the most significant private sales in recent years, including acquisitions by the National Trust, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum. A prolific author on silver, his book  The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760  was awarded the 1997 National Huguenot Society Prize for the best original work of Huguenot scholarship. His latest books are: Royal Goldsmiths: the Art of Rundell &    Bridge, 1797-1843 A Noble Feast British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art    Museum, Harvard University Geometry and the Silversmith Most recently he curated the exhibition ‘The Classical Ideal: English Silver, 1760-1840’, featuring loans from the Royal Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Harewood House Collection, Norwich Castle Museum and the Courtauld Institute. The catalogue is being sold to benefit Adam Drawings Online Project at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Juliet Nusser is the co-author of Collecting Silver: The Facts at Your Fingertips, 1999 and a contributor to The Art of Drinking, V&A Publications, 2007.

Christopher Hartop’s Bibliography

The Dictionary of Art (contributed eleven entries on gold and silver) Grove‘s Dictionaries Inc., New York, 1996 The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760 from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection Thomas Heneage, London, 1996 winner of the National Huguenot Society Book Prize for 1997 Catalogue of the Portland Art Museum (contributed the silver section) Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 1996 William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent (contributed thirty-five catalogue entries) Yale University Press, 2001 East Anglian Silver: 1550-1750 (editor) John Adamson, Cambridge, 2004 Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843 John Adamson, Cambridge, 2005 A Noble Feast: The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with John Adamson, Cambridge, 2007 British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University ISBN 978-0300-11770-7, 264 pp., 10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (276 x 219 mm), with more than 750 duotone and 8 colour illustrations, Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 2007 Geometry and the Silversmith ISBN 978-09524322-8-9, 128 pp., 11 11/16 x 8 5/8 in. (296 x 220 mm), with c. 120 colour illustrations, John Adamson, Cambridge, 2008 The Classical Ideal: English Silver 1760-1840 ISBN 978-09524322-9-6, 80 pp., 11 11/16 x 8 5/8 in. (296 x 220 mm), with c. 120 colour illustrations, John Adamson, Cambridge, 2010

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