silver and ceramics and Chinese Export porcelain—before they shifted their attention to Old Master paintings, pursuing some of the most exceptional examples of the category. Jordan Saunders and ...

Notably, the couple’s collecting journey had the help and eye of George Wachter, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of Old Master Paintings. Jordan Saunders encountered Wachter in 1998 ...

Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ... hand of the master and not the student.” During Gentileschi's era it was not uncommon for artists to ...

The collection also includes gems by the 17th-century Dutch artists Adriaen Coorte ... most valuable specialist single-owner auction of old master paintings in recent years, Wachter said.

He created Old Master Q in 1962 and used the name of his eldest son, Joseph Wong Chak, as a nom de plume. It first appeared in ­local newspaper columns in the same year. Old Master Q was ...

The collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III is, according to the auction house, “one of the finest Old Master collections assembled in our times”, put together over almost 30 years by ...