![]() ![]() In 2001 Bonhams & Brooks merged with Phillips Son & Neale to form a new UK company trading as Bonhams. Brooks continued a major acquisition programme aimed at creating a new international fine art auction house. Brooks had been founded in 1989 by the former Head of Cars at Christie's, Robert Brooks who specialized in the sale of classic and vintage motorcars. In 2000, Bonhams became Bonhams & Brooks when it was acquired by Brooks auction house. After returning from the war, in the early 1950s, Leonard Bonham purchased some land in Knightsbridge and erected a saleroom on Montpelier Street. The company expanded and by the 1850s was handling all categories of antiques including jewellery, porcelain, furniture, arms and armour, and wine. Bonhams has more than 550 staff with some of the world's leading specialists in their fields.īonhams was set up in 1793 when Thomas Dodd, an antique print dealer, joined forces with the book specialist Walter Bonham. Bonhams holds more than 280 sales a year in more than 60 collecting areas, including Asian art, Pictures, motor cars and jewelry. ![]() Sales are also held around the world in New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, and Singapore. Bonhams operates two salerooms in London-the former Phillips sale room at 101 New Bond Street, and the old Bonham's sale room at the Montpelier Galleries in Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge-with a smaller sale room in Edinburgh. Today, the amalgamated business handles art and antiques auctions. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793, and Phillips in 1796 by Harry Phillips, formerly a senior clerk to James Christie. ![]() It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. ![]()
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