Anne Rogers Haley, AAA | Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
| 2006–Present | Anne Weston & Associates, LLC, Portsmouth, NH Principal |
| 2003–2007 | Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH Director of Appraisals; Continental and English Furniture; International Liaison |
| 2004–2005 | J.W. Blanchard Ltd. (Antique Dealer), London & Froxfield, UK Sales, Appraisal, Administration |
| 2003–2004 | Hampton’s International Auctions, Marlborough, UK Officer Manager, Appraiser, Assistant to Auctioneer |
| 1995-2004 | Link Arts Research, London, UK General Manager of a subsidiary of Link Public Relations, Inc.; specialist in documentary research for authors requiring primary sources on 18th century topics. Clients included: The Chipstone Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Leigh Keno American Antiques, Historic Charleston Foundation and numerous individual authors. Contributions to auction catalogues produced by Bonhams, Christie’s, and regional auction houses. |
Professional Associations
Certified Member, Appraisers Association of America, Manhattan
Member, New Hampshire Estate Planning Council
Member, Furniture History Society, London, England
Member, Regional Furniture Society, London, England
Chair of Collections Committee, Portsmouth NH Historical Society
Education
Boston, 2007 Appraisers Association of America, Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Examination. Certified and passed.
Manhattan, 2005 Appraisers Association of America, Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Examination. Certified and passed. 2005
New York University, 2005–Present Continuing Education Courses in Appraisal Studies and Connoisseurship
London, 1995–1996
Christie’s Education Diploma Course B: The Fine & Decorative Arts, Diploma, Royal College of Art
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995 Wood Identification with R. Bruce Hoadley, Certificate
The Attingham Summer School on the British Country House, UK, 1994
Boston University, MA 1990 M.A., Preservation Studies, Art History
Greensboro, NC, 1980 Southern Decorative Arts Study, Certificate from University of North Carolina
Boston University, MA 1980 B.A. Magna cum laude, American Studies, Art History
Specialities
Ms. Haley worked and lived in the United Kingdom from 1995 until 2005. Her company, Link Arts Research, provided primary documentary research for numerous authors in both England and the United States. As a consultant, she served as the International Liaison for Northeast Auctions based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She has worked for Hampton’s International Auction Division in Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Also, as a consultant, she worked at the Fine Arts Fair at Olympia for Nicholas Merchant, a book dealer. She worked for the antiques dealer, Blanchards, of London and Froxfield, while researching and writing sections of Judith Miller’s publication, Furniture: World Styles from Classical to Contemporary. She is the author of numerous publications, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States. A list of the primary publications is attached. Since her return to the United States, she has catalogued the important English furniture collection of George Way for Snug Harbor Cultural Centre on Staten Island, New York. She appraised many private collections during her tenure as Director of Appraisals at Northeast Auctions as well as for her own company, Anne Weston & Associates, based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, and wrote the American Furniture and Decorative Arts Certification Examination for the Association in August, 2008.
Publications
Consultant Contributor to Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 2008. www.millerspublications.com
Contributor to Visions in Granite: Two Hundred Years of Painting in New Hampshire White Mountains, 2007, Blue Tree (Portsmouth, New Hampshire). www.thebluetree.com
Furniture: World Styles from Classical to Contemporary, Dorling Kindersley Publishers, London. Researched, selected photographs and wrote text from Classical to 1800, August 2005.
Exports of New England Furniture to the South and West Indies on the Eve of the American War of Independence, 1768-1771, The article and all documentation donated to Yale University, care of Patricia Kane. http://rifa.art.yale.edu
Introduction to Gilding—A Historical Overview, 1999, Partridge Fine Arts, PLC (London), Journal of New Acquisitions.
John Seymour and Thomas Seymour entries, American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1998.
New Seymour Furniture Discoveries, American in Britain, Journal of the American Museum in Britain, Volume XXXV (October, 1997)
Boston, Massachusetts Cabinetmakers and Allied Craftsmen, 1780–1799, The Magazine Antiques, May, 1996.
John and Thomas Seymour in England, American in Britain, Journal of the American Museum in Britain, Volume XXXIII, No. 2 (October, 1995)
John Cogswell and Boston Bombe Furniture, 1765–1795, co-author with Robert D. Mussey, Jr., American Furniture, Chipstone Foundation/University Press of New England, 1994. Won Honorable Mention, Charles F. Montgomery Award and Prize
Contributor to Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, University Press of New England/Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1993
Selected References
James Rylands, London, England/ Christopher Claxton Stevens, Norman Adams, London, England
Leigh Keno, Manhattan/ Christian Jussel, Bedford, New York/ Robert Mussey, Boston, Massachusetts