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Philip Mould
Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould (born 4 March 1960) is an English art dealer, London gallery owner, art historian, writer and broadcaster. He has made a number of major art discoveries, including works of Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony Van Dyck and Thomas Lawrence.
Mould is the author of two books on art discovery and is widely consulted by the media on the subject. He co-presents on BBC television, Fake or Fortune?, an investigative art history programme, with journalist and broadcaster Fiona Bruce.
Mould was born in Wirral, Cheshire and educated at Kingsmead School, Hoylake, at Worth School and at the University of East Anglia, from which he graduated with a BA in History of Art in 1981.
Mould's father owned a printing factory in Liverpool and his family was based in the Wirral Peninsula. Mould made friends with the owner of a local antiques shop, who taught him to read hallmarks on silver when he was just 11 or 12 years old, and by the age of 14 he was dealing in antique silver.
Mould began art dealing in his early teens and has since established an art dealership specialising in British art, a subject on which he is internationally consulted. He has sold works to public institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Portrait Gallery (London), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tate, the Huntington Library (California), and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Mould has worked as a valuer for the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Government's Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Between 1988 and 2010 he acted as honorary art adviser to the House of Commons and the House of Lords. He is president of the charity Kids in Museums, president and ex-chairman of Plantlife International, a patron of Fight for Sight and Action for ME. He was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society in 2012.
Mould is also a trustee of Benton End, the former home of artist Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, who ran the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the house.
Mould is a regular broadcaster, reviewer and writer for the national press. His television work includes writing and presenting the Channel 4 series Changing Faces, and featuring as an expert on the Antiques Roadshow. In 2011, he began co-hosting the television programme Fake or Fortune? with Fiona Bruce. Fake or Fortune? has regularly drawn an audience of 5 million and in 2016 it won Best Factual Programme at the RTS West of England Awards. He has authored two critically acclaimed books on art discovery.
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Philip Mould
Philip Jonathan Clifford Mould (born 4 March 1960) is an English art dealer, London gallery owner, art historian, writer and broadcaster. He has made a number of major art discoveries, including works of Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony Van Dyck and Thomas Lawrence.
Mould is the author of two books on art discovery and is widely consulted by the media on the subject. He co-presents on BBC television, Fake or Fortune?, an investigative art history programme, with journalist and broadcaster Fiona Bruce.
Mould was born in Wirral, Cheshire and educated at Kingsmead School, Hoylake, at Worth School and at the University of East Anglia, from which he graduated with a BA in History of Art in 1981.
Mould's father owned a printing factory in Liverpool and his family was based in the Wirral Peninsula. Mould made friends with the owner of a local antiques shop, who taught him to read hallmarks on silver when he was just 11 or 12 years old, and by the age of 14 he was dealing in antique silver.
Mould began art dealing in his early teens and has since established an art dealership specialising in British art, a subject on which he is internationally consulted. He has sold works to public institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Portrait Gallery (London), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tate, the Huntington Library (California), and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Mould has worked as a valuer for the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Government's Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Between 1988 and 2010 he acted as honorary art adviser to the House of Commons and the House of Lords. He is president of the charity Kids in Museums, president and ex-chairman of Plantlife International, a patron of Fight for Sight and Action for ME. He was elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society in 2012.
Mould is also a trustee of Benton End, the former home of artist Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, who ran the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the house.
Mould is a regular broadcaster, reviewer and writer for the national press. His television work includes writing and presenting the Channel 4 series Changing Faces, and featuring as an expert on the Antiques Roadshow. In 2011, he began co-hosting the television programme Fake or Fortune? with Fiona Bruce. Fake or Fortune? has regularly drawn an audience of 5 million and in 2016 it won Best Factual Programme at the RTS West of England Awards. He has authored two critically acclaimed books on art discovery.