The Weiss Gallery is holding a major exhibition in their St. James’s gallery to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the business in 1985. This celebratory exhibition includes a personal selection of some of the most significant works that Mark Weiss has sold to both UK private collectors and public institutions, including Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, English Heritage, Historic Scotland as well as the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. To coincide with the show there is a lavish commemorative catalogue available with contributions by Sir Roy Strong as well as other leading art historians and academics. The exhibition will also provide an opportunity to see the gallery's current collection, including important recent acquisitions including an extraordinary portrait from 1613 of Nicholas Lanier, a painting of Christ carrying the cross by Nicolas Tournier and a small and intimate portrait of Alice More by Holbein.
The gallery recently held a seminar on its intriguing portrait of the Renaissance polymath Nicholas Lanier, on 25th February 2010. The painting is a fine art historical puzzle, and it provided ample material for a remarkably fruitful and amicable discussion among experts assembled from Britain and abroad, from museums, academe, the dealing world, and the musical world (both academic and performing). The painting has been the subject of in depth research by art historians including Sir Roy Strong, Michael Wilson, Duncan Thomson, Jeremy Wood and Tim Wilks, published in a catalogue available from the gallery.
While we regularly organise shows at the gallery, we exhibit every March at TEFAF Maastricht, the most prestigious international fine art fair in the world.
The gallery will be participating in Master Paintings Week, London, from Saturday 3rd July to Friday 9th July, with a lecture on Monday 5th July, 1-2 pm - 'The Weiss Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition - a lecture by Mark Weiss'.