The art dealer and broadcaster Philip Mould has launched an online series Art in Isolation. I've had the pleasure of watching spring blossom, whereas normally we catch glimpses of it through windows.
“An animalier plaster c1880 modelled by Cedric, the Gallery Whippet.” My most recent speciality is pesto with wild garlic. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes
“Instead of another whippet I’ve acquired a whippet owner’s dream - Pluto by Lucian Freud 2000 (artist’s proof formally owned by Pluto’s breeder). “I tell my followers about the hotels we stay in during our trips searching for portraits,” he explains.
The art of that period is marked by Puritan restraint and so Cope’s portrait, though handsome, is a little severe. Where would you like to walk? I'd eat one with chips. Director Mould’s whippet, Cedric, is also attracting an increasing share of the attention.
The historical portrait archive is a comprehensive and fully-searchable database of historical portraiture previously sold by Philip Mould & Company. The art dealer bought Gestingthorpe Choir at a sale in New York 30 years ago but believed it the work of an unknown American artist. This year, we are in the physical company of spring, watching it take off and develop.Absolutely.
“A whippet after my own heart wins Crufts - I hadn’t appreciated it would be so controversial. By signing up you agree to our At Philip Mould & Company we use rigorous research to inform the restoration and conservation of artworks. I love the appearances by Cedric, the whippet, especially the action shot in the opening credits which appeared in about episode 4. “All the zooming in and out. Please review our
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but this video of Phillip clearing 200 years worth of yellowing from a Jacobean painting is mesmerizing. We will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our You can search or browse the archive by artist, subject, keyword or period. Mould tells me that he has “enough art hanging at Duck End to carry on for a good couple of months”.As would perhaps be expected, the Art in Isolation films have prompted “a definite rustling” among his rival Mayfair dealers. Art is having a new day.” In making the Duck End films, then, Mould has experienced a reawakening – as has Duck End. Created on an iPhone, each involves a genteel meander around the sunlit interior of Duck End: a dreamy confection of lime-washed nooks, mullion windows and oak panelling. Of course, Mould, whose Pall Mall gallery specialises in British art and Old Master paintings, has the advantage of being a seasoned broadcaster, with eight seasons of Fake or Fortune?, the BBC programme in which he and Fiona Bruce establish the authenticity of Old Master pictures, under his belt. have followed Mould to YouTube, where they mingle with a raft of newfound followers from all over the world. He's our gallery dog and is called Cedric, after the artist. Philip Mould with his son, Oliver, who has helped him make the Art in Isolation series But you know what? The models’…” I am always drawn to the Cotswolds because of its combination of nature and history - it offers the perfect amount of green with the perfect amount of antiquity.
“I’m rediscovering pieces that I’ve walked past without a second thought for decades,” he says. The way it can colour and enrich your confinement. Prize for the first person to deduce what breed it is....” I thought, why not combine all three?” Art in Isolation is broadcast live four afternoons a week on Instagram, where it has been viewed, I am told, more than 70,000 times.
Highlights include a portrait of Moll Davis, one of Charles II’s mistresses, in which Mould recounts the courtesan’s rivalry with Nell Gwyn, and an appreciation of the artist plantsman Cedric Morris, of whom Mould is particularly fond.One episode has even unearthed the lost history of a huge 18th-century painting hanging in Mould’s barn. “Ok I’ve taken the plunge.
From the sounds of it, William Cope has so far been privy to a soufflé, a “state of the art salad” (no further explanation given) and a mixed fruit sorbet. He has made a number of major art discoveries, including works of Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony Van Dyck and Thomas Lawrence.. Mould is the author of two books on art discovery and is widely consulted by the media on the subject. ‘Fake or Fortune?’ star Philip Mould is making and streaming short films about his own art collection - and thousands are watching them It was painted by Robert Walker, whose portrait of Oliver Cromwell, then Lord Protector, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Presiding over the kitchen table at Duck End – Philip Mould’s 17th-century home in Oxfordshire – is a portrait of the Royalist commander William Cope, who lived in the house not long after it was built in the 1620s. Apparently he’s had a devil of a job finding them, but six bantams are expected tout suite. Associate Director Philip Mould next to his portrait of WIlliam Cope