The Vetting Committee rigorously checks every picture exhibited in the fair to check that it is as it is described on the label, and has a price clearly stated.

The 2010 Committee consists of:

John Robertson, Chairman



John Robertson is the Director of Bourne Gallery.

Alexander Hayter

Alexander Hayter is International head of 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury Auctions, where he has also run their 20th Century print department for the past six years. Prior to working for Bloomsbury Auctions, Alexander was a specialist at Sotheby's London, also in the Modern Print Department. His particular areas of interest are Avant-Garde British printmaking, and post war American art.


Charles Nugent
Charles Nugent is an independent art historian and freelance fine art consultant.  After seven years at Christie's, he was for fifteen years Curator of Drawings and Watercolours at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester.  As well as contributing to specialist publications, he is the author of Turner Watercolours from Manchester (1996), British Watercolours in the Whitworth Art Gallery (2003) and Edward Lear, the Landscape Artist (2009).


Christopher Newall



Christopher Newall is a pecialist in nineteenth-century British art. Among the exhibitions he has curated or co-curated have been Leighton at the Royal Academy in London in 1996, and The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts at the Tate Gallery in 1997. His particular interest in landscape painting led to the Yale Center for British Art’s exhibition Victorian Landscape Watercolors (1992) and Tate Britain’s Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature (2004). More recently, he organised the exhibition Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2004-2005). In 2007 he contributed essay and catalogue entries to the publication British Vision – Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750-1950, at the MSK, in Ghent. In addition, has worked on exhibitions for museums in Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. His books include Victorian Watercolours (1987), The Art of Lord Leighton (1982), and The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions (1995). He has lectured in museums, universities and for a wide range of organisations and institutions in Britain, the United States, Mexico, Germany, France and Italy. Christopher Newall is a consultant to Sotheby’s Victorian Pictures department in London. He is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art.   

Gordon Cooke



Gordon Cooke is Director of The Fine Art Society plc since 1997. He has extensive experience in the Arts world, he ran his own private dealership from '88 to '97 (Gordon Cooke Ltd) and was a partner in Garton & Cooke from '79 to '88. Gordon has a BA in Fine Art from Leeds University.

Guy Peppiatt

Guy Peppiatt started his working life at Dulwich Picture Gallery before joining Sotheby’s British Pictures department in 1993. He soon specialised in early British drawings and watercolours and took over the running of Sotheby’s Topographical sales. Topographical views whether of Britain or worldwide have remained an abiding interest. Guy left Sotheby’s in early 2004 and has worked as a dealer specialising in 18th and 19th century British drawings and watercolours since then, first from home and now since 2007 from his gallery in Mason’s Yard, St James’s.


Neil Jennings

Neil Jennings runs Jennings Fine Art, specialising in Twentieth Century British art, design and illustration.  A particular focus is avant-garde British printmaking before 1945.