Ruling defends attribution conventions
Ruling defends attribution conventions
- 2002
- Antiques Trade Gazette (1530) 16 March 2002, 1-2(1) .
A High Court ruling has defended the conventions of attribution for paintings in a case between a disgruntled customer and Mayfair art dealers Agnew's. While the judge agreed that the painting sold to Mr Drake was not by Van Dyck, he dismissed Mr Drake's claim for a £1.5m refund because Agnew's had only expressed an opinion that it was, and Mr Drake had instead been misled by art agent Steven Callam.
CONVENTIONS OF ATTRIBUTION
AGNEWS
PAINTINGS
ART DEALER
A High Court ruling has defended the conventions of attribution for paintings in a case between a disgruntled customer and Mayfair art dealers Agnew's. While the judge agreed that the painting sold to Mr Drake was not by Van Dyck, he dismissed Mr Drake's claim for a £1.5m refund because Agnew's had only expressed an opinion that it was, and Mr Drake had instead been misled by art agent Steven Callam.
CONVENTIONS OF ATTRIBUTION
AGNEWS
PAINTINGS
ART DEALER