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After
a BA. Hons, in History at Bedford College, London University in 1979, John
Whitehead became an art dealer in 1980, specialising in French eighteenth-century
furniture, works of art and ceramics.
Member
of Council, The Furniture History Society, 1987-90.
Member
of Council, The French Porcelain Society, 1992-95, and 2008-present
Founder
member, Association des Spécialistes de la Céramique de Collection, member of
Council 1997-2007.
Exhibitor at Antiques Fairs |
International
Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London, every year since 1991.
Salon
International de la Céramique, Paris, 1997-2001.
Biennale
des Antiquaires, Paris, 1998-2006.
Salon
International de la Céramique Ancienne, Enghien, Belgium, 2002-2005.
Lectures include |
The use of Oriental lacquer in French furniture. The Furniture History Society, Victoria & Albert
Museum; Bard Graduate School, New York.
The marchands-merciers and Sèvres. International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London; J. Paul Getty Museum,
California; Frick Collection, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Amis de
Sèvres.
The French Interior Revealed. Timken Museum of Art, San Diego; Detroit Institute of Arts; George R.
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto; Amis de Versailles; Bard Graduate
School, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art.
The use of ceramics in French interiors of the eighteenth century. San Francisco Ceramic Circle;
Greenwich Ceramics Circle.
French dining in the eighteenth century. Wallace Collection, London.
Porcelain sculpture in France in the eighteenth century. Ecole du Louvre, Paris.
Interior Decoration and Decorative Arts in France in the Eighteenth Century. Christie's Fine Arts Course,
Paris.
The French 18th century bedroom. Wallace Collection, London.
The painter Piat-Joseph Sauvage, his work on Porcelain, The French Porcelain Society, London.
The Paris embassy of Saïd Mehemet Pacha in 1742, The Bard Graduate Centre, New York.
ARTICLES |
Les Laques du Japon dans les arts décoratifs français aux 17e et 18e
siècles, with Dr. Oliver Impey,
Connaissance des Arts, February 1988, pp. 86-97.
From Japanese box to French royal furniture, with Dr. Oliver Impey, Apollo, September 1990, pp.
159-165.
An inventory dated 1689 of the Chinese porcelain in the collection of the
Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV, at Versailles, with Sir Francis Watson, Journal of the History of
Collections, 1991, 1, pp. 13-52.
The marchands-merciers and Sèvres, International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Handbook, 1993, pp. 36-43.
"Some
French Purchases by William Beckford", in The Beckford Journal, Volume 2, Spring 1996, pp. 39-44.
"Les
cuvettes à fleurs unies en porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres", in Sèvres, Revue de la Société des Amis
du Musée National de Céramique, no. 7, 1998, pp. 41,50.
Engravings for Sèvres Vase designs, The French Porcelain Society, 1999.
"Le
peintre viennois Georg Lamprecht. Son séjour en France", Mélanges en souvenir d'Elisalex
d'Albis, 1999, pp. 110-118.
Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from the Collection of the Earl and Countess
of Rosebery at Dalmeny House in Scotland, Salon International de la Céramique de Collection,
Paris, 1999, pp. 11-26.
"Observations
on Japanese Lacquer in the Collection of William Beckford", with Dr.
Oliver Impey, in William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Bard
Graduate Center, New York, 2001, pp. 216-227.
"The posthumous
inventory of the Regent", The French Porcelain Society Journal, volume I, 2003, pp. 11-45.
"Le peintre Piat-Joseph Sauvage et la porcelaine", with Cyrille Froissart, Cahiers de Mariemont, 32-33, 2006.
"The Sèvres 'arabesque' service and the Vatican Loggia engravings", The French Porcelain Society Journal, Volume III, 2007.
"Royal Riches and Parisian Trinkets: The Embassy of Saïd Mehmet Pacha to France in 1741-42 and Its Exchange of Gifts", The Court Historian, Volume 14, No. 2, 2009, pp. 161-175.
BOOKS |
The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, London and New York, and in French, Paris and
Brussels, 1992.
Sèvres sous Louis XV, Paris, Editions courtes et longues, Paris, 2010.
And in English:
Sèvres at the time of Louis XV, Editions courtes et longues,
Paris, 2010.