15 Old Bond Street, London, United Kingdom

COLNAGHI 250TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR

The year 2010 marks the 250th anniversary of the foundation of Colnaghi.

The business was originally established in Paris in 1760 by the Italian pyrotechnist Giovanna Battista Torre, whose junior partner Paul Colnaghi managed the first London gallery in the 1780s.

As London's oldest commercial art gallery, they have handled some of the greatest Old Master paintings and drawings to have come onto the market in the last 250 years. Colnaghi sold masterpieces to some of the great American private collectors such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Mellon, and to notable European and South African collectors, among them Count Anton Seilern and Sir Alfred Beit.

Clients have also included some of the most important European museums in Berlin, Munich, London and Paris, as well as American institutions, notably the John Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

To celebrate the anniversary Colnaghi will be publishing a commemorative review of some of the great paintings sold by the gallery with essays about the firm's history. They will also be holding exhibitions and exhibiting at fairs such as TEFAF, Maastricht.

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