Anne E. Weston, AAA
Curriculum Vitae |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
| 2006 – Present |
Anne Weston & Associates, LLC, Portsmouth, NH Principal |
| 2003-2007 |
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH
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Director of Appraisals; Continental and English Furniture; International Liaison
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| 2004-2005 |
J.W. Blanchard Ltd. (Antique Dealer), London & Froxfield, UK
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Sales, Appraisal, Administration
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| 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.
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| PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS |
Certified Member, Appraisers Association of America, Manhattan
Member, New England Appraisers Association, Ludlow, VT
Member, Furniture History Society, London, UK
Member, Regional Furniture Society, London, UK
Trustee, Portsmouth NH Historical Society; Chair of Collections Committee |
| 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. Weston 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 has been 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 under her previous name 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. |
| PUBLICATIONS |
Consultant Contributor to Miller’s Antiques Price Guide 2008 (www.millerspublications.com)
Author of chapter on New Hampshire White Mountain Artists for the upcoming catalogue, Visions in Granite II, to be published by the Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in conjunction with an exhibition with the same title. The Banks Gallery website: www.thebanksgallery.com.
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| PUBLICATIONS (under the name Anne Rogers Haley) |
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.
“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
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