Experts - Paul Atterbury

Paul Atterbury specializes in the art, architecture, design and decorative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Trained initially as a graphic designer, he later studied art history and then worked for Sotheby Publications, as a historical advisor for Royal Doulton and then as editor of Connoisseur magazine. Since 1981 he has been a freelance writer, lecturer, broadcaster and exhibition curator, in this capacity usually for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His recent exhibitions there include Pugin: A Gothic Passion (1994) and Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision (2001).
Over the last thirty years, Paul has given over 2000 lectures on many aspects of the art, architecture and design history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has lectured to universities and colleges, antiques societies and collectors’ clubs, NADFAS groups,

auction houses and galleries all over Britain, in the United States and Canada, in the Netherlands and in Australia. He also lectures for the National Trust, on cruises for P&O and other shipping lines, for Christie’s Education and for the Victoria and Albert Museum. On a lighter vein, he gives lunch and after dinner talks.
Paul’s pleasures include walking and cycling, the enjoyment of landscape and architecture, railways, France, and his garden. He has two daughters and lives with his wife in Dorset.