James Stourton read History of Art at Cambridge and joined Sotheby’s in 1979. He is currently the UK Chairman.  He writes regularly for The Times; The Daily Telegraph; The Independent; The Spectator; Apollo; The Art Newspaper; and was Consultant to The Economist art collecting supplement.  He is a frequent lecturer to Cambridge University History of Art Faculty; Sotheby’s Institute of Education; The Georgian Group and The Art Fund.

 

• THE DICTIONARY OF ART (Macmillan) contributor, 1996
• GREAT SMALLER MUSEUMS OF EUROPE (2003). Translated into four languages, Danish, Chinese, French and Japanese
• GREAT COLLECTORS OF OUR TIME: Art Collecting  Since  (October 2007), Apollo Book of the Year 2007
• ‘Robert, 9th Lord Petre’ in English Catholic Heroes (Sept 2008)
• Sponsor and publisher of The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree, Edited Mark Evans, 2010 for the Roxburghe Club
• THE BRITISH AS COLLECTORS:A History of British Art Collecting from the Tudors Until the Present, to be published by Scala in early 2012
• THE GREAT HOUSES OF LONDON, with photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg, to be published by Frances Lincoln in autumn 2012