Independent advice on sourcing and acquiring Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings — for private collectors, designers and the professionals who advise them.
Our Story
A consultant is judged on the picture they present and on never being surprised by it. You need a dealer who will give you a straight net price, tell you the truth about condition and attribution, turn a brief around quickly, and stay out of your relationship with your client. We have been dealing in nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American painting since 2001 and we work with consultants on exactly those terms.
Your client stays your client
We deal with you. We do not approach your client, before, during or after a transaction, and we are not on your account to build our own mailing list. Where it suits you for us to deliver, hang or speak to the client directly, we do so at your invitation and in your name.
Net prices, stated once
You receive a net trade price. What you charge above it is your business and we neither ask nor comment. No haggling, no shifting numbers, and no different price appearing elsewhere while you are presenting the picture.
Research you can pass on
Every work is researched and authenticated by our own team before it is offered. You receive high-resolution photography, a full condition report, provenance and literature where they exist, and a written catalogue entry — supplied plain, for you to present under your own name. Where an attribution is uncertain, we say so and tell you what would be needed to settle it. We would rather you lose a sale than defend one you should not have made.
Sourcing to brief
Much of our stock is never listed online, so ask before assuming we cannot help. Beyond it, we buy at auction, from colleagues in the trade and privately, and we will take on a specific brief — an artist, a subject, a scale, a budget — and report back honestly, including when the right picture simply has not appeared.
Framing, delivery and the rest
Conservation and restoration, framing specified to your scheme rather than ours, insurance valuations, crating and worldwide shipping, delivery and hanging. We also buy, which is worth knowing when a client is deaccessioning.
To discuss a brief, contact us directly.
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Fine Art Advisory
Private Residences
From a single considered work in a principal reception room to a collection curated across an entire home, we advise on pieces chosen for scale, light and the way a room is actually used.
Corporate & Office Interiors
Original paintings for boardrooms, reception areas and workspaces — selected to reflect the standing of the business and considered against light, footfall and acoustics.
Hotels & Hospitality
Collections curated for public and guest-facing spaces, balancing visual impact with the practical demands of a commercial interior in constant use.
Working with You
Most of the collections we place involve more than one advisor — an interior designer, a project manager, or your own art consultant. We are accustomed to working alongside the professionals already involved, and see our role as adding specialist knowledge to that team, not replacing it.
Professional Fine Art Sourcing
If a particular artist, period or subject is right for your collection but isn’t currently held by us, we can search on your behalf — including works not publicly listed, through contacts built over twenty-five years in the market.
How We Work
Discretion is not an afterthought for us — it is how this side of the business runs day to day.
Client names, locations and project details are never shared or used in our marketing without express permission.
Family offices, personal assistants and estate managers regularly act as our primary point of contact. We structure our process around that arrangement as a matter of course.
By named contact, encrypted email or a single point of contact within your team — whatever suits your arrangement.
Get in Touch
Whether you are sourcing a single work or planning a collection across an entire project, get in touch to discuss your requirements.
Who We Are
Leighton Fine Art holds one of the largest privately owned collections of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Every work is owned outright, authenticated and researched by our own team.
Our advisory work extends across private residences, hospitality and commercial interiors alike, guided throughout by the same standard: every painting is owned outright, authenticated and researched by our own team before it reaches a client.
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