
Peter Brown
Specialist, Head of Sale
London, King Street
With fifteen years experience in valuing Victorian & British Impressionist Art, Peter Brown has overseen sales which have ensured Christie’s dominance of this market. Peter has achieved many world auction records for Victorian artists – five in the December 2009 sale alone – and was closely involved in securing and selling the Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures in 2003, which sold for a total of £17 million – the largest ever auction of Victorian art, in which 65 auction records were achieved. In June 2000, he discovered an unsigned and previously unidentified work by Sir John Everett Millais. Estimated at £60-80,000, the picture sold for £157,750. (Christie’s, London, 14 June 2000, lot 11). Peter Brown holds a B.A. from Durham University, and is a graduate of Christie’s Education. He has worked with Christie’s since 1992.