Equestrian Fine Art
We sell fine equestrian and sporting paintings and prints worldwide from our houseboat on the Thames at Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London SW10.
You are very welcome to view prints and paintings here by appointment - please telephone or email in advance.
People
Charles Mayes is a former director of Richmond Gallery in Cork Street and has specialised in important equestrian paintings, contemporary figurative art and sporting and marine art for more than thirty years. He spent some years at the London dealers Frost & Reed who dealt in fine equestrian, Victorian and marine paintings.
Educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Charles has sold highly important paintings by masters such as Canaletto, Cezanne, Sisley and van Gogh as well as by most of the important sporting and equestrian painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular Sir Alfred Munnings.
Complementing his expertise in historical equestrian and sporting paintings, Charles Mayes has worked for many years with major contemporary equestrian painters and sculptors from Tod Ramos (whose "Racing Year" exhibitions he put on at Richmond Gallery) to Susan Crawford, Peter Curling, Darren Baker, Judy Boyt, Lesley Thiel and Brooksby.
A main speciality is the commissioning of equestrian and sporting paintings and bronzes. Call or email Charles Mayes for information on commissioning.
As a corporate art consultant Charles has worked on the collections of numerous companies and Health Care providers including Rolls-Royce, Heidrick & Struggles, Hammerson, John Lewis, The Royal College of Surgeons, The Heart Hospital and London Bridge Hospital.
Louis Mayes graduated from the University of Reading with a First Class degree in the History of Art and Architecture. At Equestrian Fine Art he specialises in the sale of paintings and prints, research, cataloguing and has responsibility for the content and presentation of our websites. Louis will begin his Architecture Part I in the near future.
Houseboat Artemis
106, Cheyne Walk
London SW10 0DG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7352 7759
cm@equestrianfineart.com