Bendor Grosvenor

Bendor Gerard Robert Grosvenor (born 27 November 1977) is a British art dealer and art historian. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, and appears in the BBC1 art programme, Fake or Fortune?.^[1]

Life and work

Grosvenor was educated at Harrow School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia where he completed his PhD entitled "The Politics of Foreign Policy: Lord Derby and the Eastern Crisis, 1875-8".^[2]

His first major art discovery was a mis-catalogued portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence in 2003 that was being sold at a London auction as a work by Lawrence's pupil, George Henry Harlow.^[3] From 2005 until 2014 he worked for Philip Mould Ltd, where he made a number of significant art historical discoveries, including lost works by artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and Sir Anthony Van Dyck, on whom he is an acknowledged specialist. In 2013 Grosvenor discovered the lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay at Gosford House, the home of the Earl of Wemyss near Edinburgh.^[4]

Grosvenor is a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, and the Lord Chancellor's Forum for Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research. He also works as a journalist and writer, and presents programmes for BBC2's The Culture Show.

Ancestry

The name Bendor is derived from the Grosvenor family's medieval heraldic shield, a bend or, a golden bend (diagonal stripe), which they used until 1389 when it was claimed instead by the Scrope family, in the case Scrope v. Grosvenor. Bendor is the grandson of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury, and the 4th cousin once removed of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster. He is also of Swiss heritage.

Ancestors of Bendor Grosvenor



				16. Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury



			8. Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 4th Baron Ebury



				17. Emilie Beaujolais White



		4. Robert Grosvenor, 5th Baron Ebury



				18. John Glasson



			9. Mary Adela Glasson



				19. Mary Phillips



	2. Richard Alexander Grosvenor



				20. John Yarde-Buller, 2nd Baron Churston



			10. John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston



				21. Barbara Yelverton



		5. Denise Margaret Yarde-Buller



				22. Alfred John Smither



			11. Jessie Smither



				23. Jessicah Henrietta Pococke



1. Bendor Grosvenor



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		6. Xavier Speckert



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	3. Gabriella Speckert



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Publications

Starkey, David (2007). Grosvenor, Bendor, ed. Lost Faces: Identity and discovery in Tudor royal portraiture. Philip Mould Ltd. OCLC 122357300.
Finding Van Dyck. Newly Discovered and Rarely Seen Works by Van Dyck and His Followers. Philip Mould Ltd. 2009.
Grosvenor, Bendor; Hicks, Geoffrey (2009). Crap MPs: The 40 Worst Members of Parliament in History. London: The Friday Project. ISBN 9780007348688.
Hicks, Geoff; Charmley, John; Grosvenor, Bendor, eds. (2012). Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852-1878. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107035928.
Rutherford, Emma; Grosvenor, Bendor, eds. (2013). Warts and All: the Portrait Miniatures of Samuel Cooper. Philip Mould Ltd. ISBN 9780992726409.

References

↑ "Fake or Fortune?". BBC One. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
↑ "Bendor Grosvenor". Philip Mould & Company. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/417wnxhPlvxr5JxPGdKFJcT/bendor-grosvenor. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "Lost Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait found in Scotland". BBC News. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.

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