Martin Levy
Martin Levy has, since the 1980s, lectured in the U.K. and the U.S.A.; he has also contributed articles, exhibition reviews, book reviews and letters to numerous publications. A selection includes:
- [with Simon Swynfen Jervis] ‘Tribute: Christopher Monkhouse (1947-2021)’, Furniture History Society Newsletter 224, 2021
- [lecture] ‘From John Coleman Isaac to H. Blairman & Sons: Two Centuries of Commerce and Friendship’, Furniture History Society Annual Lecture, 2021
- ‘Promoting and Selling Modern Majolica: A Victorian Phenomenon’, in Susan Weber, ed., Majolica Mania, 2021
- ‘Lamps, Lanterns and Lustres: Lighting Designed by George Bullock (d. 1818)’, Furniture History, LVI, 2020 Click here for PDF
- ‘A Tribute: John Scott (1935-2020)’, Furniture History Society Newsletter 218, 2020
- Notes on John Coleman Isaac, Edward Holmes Baldock and H. Blairman & Sons, in Mark Westgarth, ed., SOLD! The Great British Antiques Story, 2020
- [book review] Alistair Grant & Angus Patterson, ‘The Museum and the Factory: The V&A, Elkington and the Electrical Revolution‘, Decorative Arts Society Newsletter 118, Spring 2020
- ‘Susan Weber, Godwin, and Bard Graduate Center: Onwards and Upwards’, in Bard Graduate Center at 25: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2019
- ‘A Tribute: John H. Bryan, Junior (1936-2018), Furniture History Society Newsletter 212, November 2018
- ‘A Royal Visit to George Bullock’s Workshop, 1814’, Furniture History Society Newsletter 211, August 2018
- ‘Works of Art and ivory: what are the issues?’, Curator: The Museum Journal (61:1), 2018 Click here to view
- ‘The Apotheosis of Charles Lepec: his participation at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867’ [with Olivier Hurstel], Decorative Arts Society Journal, 41 (2017). Click here for PDF
- [lecture] ‘Alfred Morrison (1821-97): an Overlooked Patron and Collector of Decorative Arts’, Art Institute of Chicago, May 2016
- ‘Are there too many art fairs?’, Apollo, February 2016
- Charles Lepec and the Patronage of Alfred Morrison’ [with Olivier Hurstel], Metropolitan Museum Journal 50, 2015
Click here for PDF - ‘Why is Christopher Dresser so Admired’ in Christopher Dresser: Ceramics, Glass and Metalware, Chicago, 2015
- ‘A recently Identified Thomas Hope Chandelier in New Orleans’, Furniture History, LI, 2015
- [exhibition review] ‘George Hoentschel and French decorative arts’. The Burlington Magazine, August 2013
- ‘Manufacturers at the World’s Fairs: The Model of 1851’ in Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. Futter, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939, New York, 2012
- [book review] ‘The Napoleon of Shopkeepers’, Apollo, December 2011 – review of Caroline Dakers, A Genius for Money: Business, Art and the Morrisons
- [book review] ‘Susan E, Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840: Cabinetmakers and International Merchants: A Furniture and Business History’, Decorative Arts, XVII, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2009-2010).
- ‘Of Beauty: Aspects of the Horace Wood Brock Collection of Decorative Arts’ in Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009
- Catalogue entries on the furniture in David Watkins and Philip Hewat-Jaboor (eds), Thomas Hope: Regency Designer, New Haven and London, 2008
- ‘Ralph Bernal and John Coleman Isaac: Some Correspondence’, in Makers, dealers and Collectors: Studies in Honour of Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Leeds, 2007
- Beauty and Vitality: Masterpieces of English Furniture at Grosvenor House’. Grosvenor House Art & Antique Fair Handbook, London, 2006
- [review of Christopher Dresser exhibition, Cooper-Hewitt, New York], ‘Shock of the Old’ Apollo, October 2004
- John Coleman Isaac, ‘Importer of Curiosities. An outline of his life, and the 1846 Continental Diary’ [with Elaine Moss], Journal of the History of Collections, 2002
- Catalogue entries on furniture in Derek Ostergard (ed.), William Beckford 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven and London, 2001
- ‘Living with antiques: A collection of Victorian Decorative Arts’ [the Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan collection], The Magazine Antiques, June 2000
- ‘Napoleon in Exile: The Houses and Furniture supplied by the British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St Helena’, Furniture History, XXXIV, 1998
- The Roman Gallery at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and some Tripods by William Bullock and George Bullock, Furniture History, XXXIII, 1997
- ‘Some Silver by John Hardman & Co for Charles Lygon Cocks’ The Decorative Arts Society Journal, 20, (1995)
- ‘Nineteenth-century English Gothic revival decorative arts in a private collection’ [the John Scott collection], The Magazine Antiques, June 1995
- ‘Abbots Wood, Barrow-in-Furness. Furniture by Gillow for Sir James Ramsden, Apollo, June 1993
- ‘Regency’ in Huon Mallalieu (ed), The Illustrated History of Antiques, Philadelphia, 1991
- ‘Architectural By Design’ [furniture by Alfred Wickham Jarvis], Country Life, 4 July 1991
- ‘Napoleon’s fauteuil de malade. A new discovery’, Apollo, May 1991
- ‘Ditton Park, Berkshire’, Country Life, 11 January 1990
- ‘George Bullock’s Partnership with Charles Fraser, 1813-1818, and the Stock-in-Trade Sale, 1819’, Furniture History, 1989
- ‘Sincerest Form of Flattery’ [furniture by Louis Le Gaigneur], Country Life, 15 June 1989
- ‘George Bullock, a Regency cabinetmaker reassessed’, The Magazine Antiques, June 1988
- ‘George Bullock: Sources for identifying Furniture from his Workshop’, Apollo, June 1987
- 2021-present: Trustee, The Emery Walker Trust
- 2019 Society Medal awarded by Society of Antiquaries of London
- 2019-present: Trustee, The Gilbert Trust for the Arts
- 2017-present: Chairman of Decorative Arts Society; Patron 2014-2017
- 2017-present: Chairman of Kelmscott Campaign Group
- 2017-present: Trustee, Bard Graduate Center, New York
- 2014-present: Member of the Kelmscott Committee, Society of Antiquaries
- 2014: Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts
- 2013-present: Advisory Board member ‘Antique Dealers: the British Antique trade in the 20th Century’
- 2005-2009: Chairman of the Vetting Comittees, Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair
- 2002-2013: Treasurer of Furniture History Society, and Council member (1994-96) www.furniturehistorysociety.org
- 2000-present: Member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel
- 1998: Elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- 1997-2007: Member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art
- 1997-2012: Trustee of the Jewish Museum, London
- 1997-2008: Trustee of The London Historic House Museums’ Trust
- 1997-present: Trustee of Oliver Ford Trust
- 1993-1994: Chairman of the British Antique Dealers’ Association