James Stourton

Quick Facts

Full Name	James Stourton
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1956(1956-07-03)
Age	68
Birthplace	York
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Cancer

James Stourton Biography

James Stourton is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on July 3, 1956 in York, England, United Kingdom. James Alastair Stourton was born in York, England, on 3 July 1956. He is an art historian from Britain and a former chairman of Sotheby’s UK.

James was a proprietor at the Stourton Press. His article, titled “A Month of Sundays: My Time at Stourton Press”, appeared in Matrix 24, ( Twenty-Four ), A Review for Printers And Bibliophiles, Winter 2004.

Stourton has contributed to several television programmes, most recently for the BBC2 Culture Show programme on Kenneth Clark, screened Saturday 31 May

2014. Past programmes include appearances with Victoria Leatham in Heirs and Graces (1990) on the art collections at Highclere and Berkeley Castles; he was also a contributor to BBC4 series on British Art Collecting (screened July 2013). Today he acts as the consultant to Sky Arts television series on art collectors being produced by Colonial Pictures.

James gave the 150th Anniversary Lecture of the Building of George Gilbert Scott’s Foreign Office, entitled “Goths vs Romans: The Battle to Build the Foreign Office’.

Stourton is the second child of Charles Edward Stourton. He was the 23rd Baron Stourton’s son, 27th Baron Segrave and 26th Baron Mowbray, CBE, and Jane de Yarburgh–Bateson, Lord Deramore’s only child. Stourton, 7th Baron Camoys, married Sophie Stonor in 1993. Annulment was used to dissolve the marriage.

James Stourton Net Worth

James Stourton is one of the richest Art Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Stourton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stourton started his career at Sotheby’s in 1979 as an Old Master painting specialist. He rose to the UK Chairmanship in the auction house and then left in 2012 to become Senior Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London University.

Whilst at Sotheby’s Stourton instituted the first Graduate Trainee Scheme in 1987, which provided a very significant number of today’s senior European directors, and also initiated The Historic Houses Association/Sotheby’s annual prize in 2006 for a country house restoration.

He frequently lectures on the history of art and collecting, having in the past delivered lectures for the Cambridge University History of Art faculty, The Art Fund, Sotheby’s Institute and many others. Stourton gave the keynote address at Frick Museum seminar on Anglo-American art collecting on 6 May 2011: The Revolving Door: 300 years of British Art Collecting. He also delivered the lecture to close the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification at the Italian Embassy on 13 October 2011: The English Love Affair with Italy, 300 years of Art Collecting. In 2017 he was invited to give the Marlay Lecture at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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James Ranked on the list of most popular Art Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. James Stourton celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.