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Sector: Old Master Paintings
Country: United Kingdom
City: London
Size: 2 - 10 employees
Address: Following Harrow, Oriel College, Oxford, and a brief stint at The Courtauld Institute, a fluent Italian speaker, Patrick Matthiesen worked as a volunteer conservator in the Bargello in Florence following The Flood in November 1966 and was chief co-ordinator for sculpture restoration in the city. He developed a method for removing the fuel oil which had disfigured much of the marble at ground level. The following year he worked in Venice on similar projects in conjunction with Ken Hempel of the Victoria & Albert Museum. After a brief spell with a property development company in 1972 he joined the venerable London gallery, P. & D. Colnaghi, initially in charge of research, soon becoming a director in the Old Master Paintings department, before founding Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd late in 1977 and moving to 6 Mason’s Yard. Using his property development experience he managed a project to develop nos. 7 and 8 Mason’s Yard in 1980 as a purpose built art gallery initiating the space with an exhibition of baroque old masters in 1981.
This Gallery has proved to be a superlative venue for the many large-scale works that the Gallery has shown. The Gallery has specialised in Italian paintings from 1330 to 1800 mounting a wide variety of exhibitions and publishing over 50 catalogues and selling on multiple occasion to an unrivalled list of well over 108 international public institutions.
Patrick is also a yachtsman, as the accompanying photograph shows, enjoys travel, fine food and wines and is known to enjoy gardening by moonlight mainly because of his tardiness in starting in the morning! He has a predilection for classical music and opera, particularly that composed during the baroque period. He also has interests in ecology linked to the education of third world children from Cambodia and Nepal to Peru, music and the sponsorship of young musicians and medical care which he currently promotes through The Matthiesen Foundation.
The Gallery has made gifts of paintings to the following institutions worldwide: The National Gallery, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The National Gallery of Western Art, Tokyo; The Shizuoka Prefectural Museum; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Ackland Art Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; it has also supported symposia and music at the National Gallery, London and made financial grants to public institutions.
Phone: +44 207 930 2437
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