Martin Levy
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2005-2009: Chairman of the Vetting Comittees, Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair
2002-present: Treasurer of Furniture History Society, and Council member (1994-96)
www.furniturehistorysociety.org
2000-present: Member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel
1998: Elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
1997-2007: Member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art
1997-present: Trustee of the Jewish Museum, London
1997-2008: Trustee of The London Historic House Museums' Trust
1993-1994: Chairman of the British Antique Dealers' Association
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Martin Levy has, over the past three decades, lectured in the U.K. and the U.S.A.; he has also contributed articles, exhibition reviews and book reviews, to numerous publications.
A short selection includes:
- [book review] 'Susan E, Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840: Cabinetmakers and International Merchants: A Furniture and Business History', Decorative Arts, XVII, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2009-2010).
- 'Of Beauty: Aspects of the Horace Wood Brock Collection
of Decorative Arts' in Splendor and
Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Collection,
exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009
- Furniture catalogue entries in Thomas Hope:
Regency Designer, 2008
- 'Ralph Bernal and John Coleman Isaac: Some
Correspondence', Furniture History, 2007
- Beauty and Vitality: Masterpieces of English Furniture at Grosvenor House'. Grosvenor House Art & Antique Fair Handbook, 2006
- 'Shock of the Old' [review of Christopher Dresser exhibition, Cooper-Hewitt, New York], Apollo, October 2004
- John Colman Isaac, 'Importer of Curiosities. An outline of his life, and the 1846 Continental Diary' [with Elaine Moss], Journal of the History of Collections, 2002 (vol. 14, no. 1)
- The Roman Gallery at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and some Tripods by William Bullock and George Bullock, Furniture History, 1997
- 'Some Silver by John Hardman & Co for Charles Lygon Cocks' The Decorative Arts Society Journal, June 1995
- 'Nineteenth-century Engligh Gothic revival decorative arts in a private collection', The Magazine Antiques. June 1995
- 'Abbots Wood, Barrow-in-Furness. Furniture by Gillow for Sir James Ramsden, Apollo, June 1993
- 'Regency' in Huon Mallalieu (ed), The Illustrated History of Antiques, Philadelphia, 1991
- 'Napoleon's fauteuil de malade. A new discovery', Apollo, May 1991
- 'Ditton Park, Berkshire', Country Life, 11 January 1990
- 'George Bullock's Partnership with Charles Fraser, 1813-1818, and the Stock-in-Trade Sale, 1819', Furniture History, 1989
- 'Sincerest Form of Flattery' [furniture by Louis le Gaigneur], Country Life, 15 June 1989
- 'George Bullock: Sources for identifying Furniture from his Workshop', Apollo, June 1987
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