Property of John Kenworthy-Brown FSA (lot 9, 18, 65, 272-319, 388-397 and 560)
John...

Property of John Kenworthy-Brown FSA (lot 9, 18, 65, 272-319, 388-397 and 560)

John Kenworthy-Browne is an art historian specialising in architecture and sculpture, principally from the neoclassical period. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Wadham College, Oxford, followed by the Courtauld Institute in London. John was the first National Trust curator at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, which he opened to the public in 1961. The Queen Mother visited Dyrham on 16th March 1962, and she was pictured with him outside the Assembly Rooms during the visit. After his time at Dyrham, John joined Christies where he catalogued furniture, and it was at Christies that he first became fascinated with sculpture.

John has published numerous articles in Apollo, Burlington Magazine, The British Art Journal, Sculpture Journal and Country Life. He wrote the sculpture entries for The Age of Neo-Classicism Exhibition in 1972. He also published Chippendale and his Contemporaries (1975), and he was the co-author of Three Centuries of Furniture (1972) and The Country House Guide (1979). His work on a publication on the British sculptor Joseph Nollekens was cut short by an accident, and it is for Johns care that the following 61 lots are being sold.

A Bow white porcelain figure of an abbess, c.1755, seated reading a large tome, wearing flowing robes and habit, with traces of silvered crucifix on a chain around her neck, 15cm high

Provenance: E. & J. Handley Collection, no. B. 27, according to paper label applied to the base.

Property of John Kenworthy-Brown FSA.