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- Thomas Agnew & Sons
- Also known as
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Thomas Agnew & Sons
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primary name: Thomas Agnew & Sons
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other name: Agnew & Sons
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other name: Agnew & Zanetti
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other name: Agnew's
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other name: Agnew, Thomas
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other name: Agnew
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other name: Zanetti & Agnew
- Details
- organisation; dealer/auction house; publisher/printer; British
- Other dates
- 1817 founded-2008 closed
- Address
- 94 Market Street, Manchester (1824)
Repository of Arts, Manchester (1825, 1828, 1843)
Repository of Arts, Exchange Street, Manchester (1837-1840)
Repository of Arts, Manchester (1847)
Exchange Street, Manchester (1837, 1850, 1852)
Liverpool (1862)
4 Exchange Street, Manchester (1875)
Manchester (1817-1932)
30 Old Bond Street, London (1860-
5 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London (in 1874 - 77)
43 Old Bond Street, London, W1S 4BA (1876-)
Exchange Art Gallery, corner of Castle Street and Dale Street, Liverpool (1886)
- Biography
- The firm began in 1817 when Thomas Agnew (1794-1871) entered into partnership with Vittore Zanetti in Manchester. The firm's early business was in print publishing; only later did it become a dealer in modern, then (in 1870s) Old Master, paintings. The London branch was established in 1860. Thomas retired in 1861. Firm run from 1861-95 by William Agnew (1825-1910) and his son George Agnew (1852-1941) and W. Lockett Agnew (1858–1918). It passed through various other Agnew family members, including C Morland Agnew and Geoffrey Agnew before it closed in 2008 when it was purchased privately and the Bond Street premises were sold.
- Bibliography
- Geoffrey Agnew, 'Agnew's 1817-1967', London 1967 (with an appendix on Agnew's as print publishers and sellers by William Plomer)
'Agnew's a century of print publishing', exhibition catalogue 1983
The firm's Archive has material from 1860 to closure in 2008, and now belongs to the National Gallery