Sneha Girap (Editor)

James Christie (auctioneer)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Nationality
  
British

Children
  
James Christie

Role
  
Auctioneer


Name
  
James Christie

Occupation
  
Auctioneer

Organizations founded
  
Christie's

James Christie (auctioneer) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons66

Born
  
1730
Perth, Scotland

Died
  
1803, Pall Mall, London, St James's, United Kingdom

People also search for
  
Billie J Enz, Carol Vukelich, Thomas D. Yawkey

Books
  
Play - Development - and Early, Teaching Language and Liter, The Light in the Darkness, Play and Early Childhoo, Out of this World: Stephen

James Christie (1730–1803) was the founder of auction house Christie's.

Contents

Born 1730 in Perth, Scotland, Christie went on to found Christie's auctioneers on 5 December 1766. Situated at Pall Mall in London, England Christie's Great Rooms dealt with some of the most important sales of the late-eighteenth century.

Career

His first sale took place on 5 December 1766, at rooms in Pall Mall, formerly occupied by the print warehouse of Richard Dalton. On these premises the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts were held until 1779. Christie afterwards moved next door to Gainsborough, who lived in the western wing of Schomburg House.

He was of tall and dignified appearance, remarkable for eloquence and professional enthusiasm, and was intimate with Garrick, Reynolds, and Gainsborough, and other men of note. He died at his house in Pall Mall on 8 November 1803, aged 73, and was buried at St. James’s burial-ground in the Hampstead Road.

Family

He was twice married, and of the first marriage had four sons, of whom the eldest, James Christie (1773-1831), succeeded him; the second, Charles, captain in the 5th regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, was killed (1812) in Persia during a Russian attack; the third, Albany, died in 1821; and Edward, the fourth, died a midshipman at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1821.

References

James Christie (auctioneer) Wikipedia