London Art Week

30 June - 7 July

London Art Week Summer 2023 will open on Friday 30 June and runs through to Friday 7 July.

The UK’s leading fine arts selling event, held both in galleries and online, the art week features 51 participants. Expert dealers will be on hand offering museum quality examples of decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, and works on paper of all periods from antiquity to contemporary, as well as - for the first time this yearrare books, maps and manuscripts.

Important and broad-ranging gallery exhibitions are staged across central London, in particular in St. James’s, Mayfair, Pimlico, Kensington and Chelsea. Encompassing the Classic and Old Master live viewings and auctions at Bonhams, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, LAW will once again collaborate with Cromwell Place, the arts hub opposite the Victoria & Albert Museum. Here, several major exhibitions are being staged by participants alongside a LAW Showcase in the famous Lavery Studio.

Highlights of the week include an exhibition of The Stories behind the Sitters: Portraits spanning Five Centuries by Moretti Fine Art, where one of the showcased pieces is a beautiful portrait of Anne, Viscountess Pollington, later the Countess of Mexborough with her son, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).

Bonhams are presenting a painting by a follower of Marinus van Reymerswaele (circa 1490 - circa 1567). The 16th Century oil on panel depicts a satirical commentary of lawyers. While Trinity Fine Art is showing a genre painting which has now been attributed to Pietro Longhi (1701-1785) and been given a new title: Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu & his son Massoud Fortunatus. What makes this painting particularly fascinating are its subjects - Edward Wortley Montagu, one of the most colourful figures in 18th-Century Europe, and his son, born in 1762, whom he fathered with an Egyptian woman.

Elsewhere Connaught Brown will present a comparative show londonartweek.co.uk of paintings, drawings and prints by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro, two of art history’s most consequential artists. This exhibition will bring together these titans of European art and contrast the way in which they approached that most joyous of all movements, Impressionism. londonartweek.co.uk

Finally, Peter Harrington Rare Books mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s first folio with an exhibition of the Bard’s most famous creations as well as early works that influenced him and those that inspired his literary legacy.

The London Art Week map, in print and online, is illustrated by Adam Dant and pinpoints every venue, while digital catalogue will also be available to all via a QR code.

Left: Frames Stacked in the Gallery Paul Mitchell Ltd

Below: Yellow-Headed Amazon Parrot ‘Amazona ochrocephala oratrix’ with Hybrid Cockatoo, Watercolour on Paper, 1801. By Sarah Stone (1760-1844). The Finch Gallery, Finch & Co.