Purchasing fine art and antiques should be exciting and pleasurable. However, unless you are appropriately experienced, engaging with the art market can be daunting, confusing and time consuming.

This puts some people off from taking advantage of the exciting range, quality and value to be found, and this is often conveniently overlooked by those in the art world. MJR Fine Art has the specialist knowledge, depth of experience and wealth of contacts to provide its clients with a simplified, transparent and professional service.

• We are not dealers, thereby offering totally independent advice – not our own stock.
• We are not auctioneers, thereby we are able to offer an exclusive ‘one-to-one’ service to buyers.

We first ensure that we understand exactly what our clients want, don’t want and what their budget is. Some have developed firm ideas or they may wish to be totally guided and educated on the options open to them. We can listen or lead in whatever balance suits them.

We source pieces in all areas of the market. We scour the auction rooms and dealers stock throughout the UK, and abroad if necessary. With the right specialist knowledge buying at auction offers transparency and more often not value. We give our opinion on the condition, quality and value of proposed acquisitions, while viewing and bidding on behalf of the client. When appropriate, and if speed is a driving factor, we can also source pieces quickly and efficiently using our extensive network of contacts in the trade.

Through our search methods we can buy pieces which once belonged to a specific house or the family who owned it. In New York we tracked down and bought a painting that had been collected on the grand tour in the early 18th Century by a member of the family who originally lived in the house our client bought.

We know it is important that the contents of a house need to sit comfortably within their surroundings, which is why we can work alongside interior designers to ensure the overall effect is coherent.

Jewellery

Buying jewellery, as a gift or for yourself, can be so subjective that only a bespoke design service will match your personal requirements. For this and other reasons, searching for the right jewellery for you needs a different approach than sourcing fine art and antiques. Through our established contacts we can provide such a service designing and hand crafting exquisite

jewellery made to your exact specifications. We can also source antique pieces through auction and the trade which can, if needed, be personalised, altered and restored.