Posts from Richard Bagnall-Smith

Speaker at International Private Client Forum, Villa d’Este 2018 on ‘Masterpiece or massive fraud? Art for the uninitiated’.

Panel participants included: Willem de Gier, Director, Cadell. Simon Fitzpatrick, Partner, Boodle Hatfield. Alexander Jolles, Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer. Charles Hill, former Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police, London.

A trustee had been approached to set up an art-fund with a Leonardo da Vinci as the principal asset. He asked Cadell for a second opinion on the da Vinci. The sector expert already knew that this work had been on the market ‘for years’ and hadn’t been accepted by any of the relevant experts […]