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== Career == |
== Career == |
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In 1970, Radcliffe joined [[Hogg Robinson]], as a [[Lloyd's of London]] insurance broker.<ref name="theartbusinessconference.com" /> |
In 1970, Radcliffe joined [[Hogg Robinson]], as a [[Lloyd's of London]] insurance broker.<ref name="theartbusinessconference.com" /> In 1990, he founded the [[Art Loss Register]].<ref name="theartbusinessconference.com" /> |
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Radcliffe is the majority shareholder in the [[Art Loss Register]], with auction houses [[Sotheby's]] (a/k/a Oatshare Ltd.) owning about 11%, [[Christie's]] about 3%.<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02455350/filing-history]Companies House Gov.UK </ref> In 2008, Radcliffe was heavily criticised for attempting to profit from Nazi-looted art claims after signing agreements with holocaust victims to provide services without charge.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-resigned15apr15-story.html|title=Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis|date=2008-04-15|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2017-04-20|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> |
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Radcliffe is the majority shareholder in the [[Art Loss Register]], with auction houses [[Sotheby's]] (a/k/a Oatshare Ltd.) owning about 11%, [[Christie's]] about 3%.<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02455350/filing-history]Companies House Gov.UK </ref> In 2008. |
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In 2013, Radcliffe said that the ALR has lost money for ten years, only surviving thanks to his own cash injections.<ref name="Interview with Jason Felch">{{cite web|url=https://chasingaphrodite.com/2013/08/01/optical-due-diligence-art-loss-register-claims-to-vet-ancient-art-does-it/|title=Optical Due Diligence: Art Loss Register Claims To Vet Ancient Art. Does it?|publisher=Chasing Aphrodite|accessdate=17 November 2017}}</ref> |
In 2013, Radcliffe said that the ALR has lost money for ten years, only surviving thanks to his own cash injections.<ref name="Interview with Jason Felch">{{cite web|url=https://chasingaphrodite.com/2013/08/01/optical-due-diligence-art-loss-register-claims-to-vet-ancient-art-does-it/|title=Optical Due Diligence: Art Loss Register Claims To Vet Ancient Art. Does it?|publisher=Chasing Aphrodite|accessdate=17 November 2017}}</ref> |
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In 2014, ''[[The Times]]'' called him a "controversial figure".<ref name="thetimes.co.uk" /> ''[[The Times]]'' has reported that ALR has paid informers and underworld figures for information, which some in law enforcement believe could encourage theft.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tom-flynn.blogspot.it/2014/08/radcliffe-ruins-everything-art-loss.html|title=tomflynn: "Radcliffe ruins everything." Art Loss Register chairman under scrutiny for passing money to Balkan gangsters|last=Flynn|first=Tom|date=9 August 2014|publisher=Tom-flynn.blogspot.it|accessdate=2017-04-19}}</ref> |
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In 2013, former LA Times reporter Jason Felch uncovered that Julian Radcliffe and the Art Loss Register issued certificates of clearance for looted objects for $100.00 each with no provenance to Subhash Kapoor and his gallery, Art of the Past. These certificates allowed the looted objects to trade in the marketplace despite having been stolen from Indian temples.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chasingaphrodite.com/2013/06/04/scoop-new-evidence-of-stolen-idols-at-the-national-gallery-of-australia/|title=SCOOP: New Evidence Of Stolen Idols at the National Gallery of Australia|last=5|first=Slayerwulfe{{!}} June|last2=Reply|first2=2013 at 9:43 pm {{!}}|date=2013-06-04|website=CHASING APHRODITE|accessdate=2017-04-20}}</ref> In 2017, the Art Loss Register was again criticised for issuing certificates of clearance for looted objects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/22/looted-antiquities-allegedly-on-sale-at-london-frieze-masters-art-fair|title=Allegedly looted antiquities on sale at London Frieze Masters art fair|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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In 2014, Radcliffe admitted publicly that he has paid money to criminals and that some of the funds paid went to people directly connected to thefts of stolen art.<ref name="The Murky World of the Art Detective">{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-murky-world-of-the-art-detective-cggslfjtvxz/|author=Alexi Mostrous|title=The murky world of the art detective|website=The Times & The Sunday Times|accessdate=2017-07-31}}</ref> Radcliffe has stated that the ALR has lost money for six years, only surviving thanks to his own cash injections.<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news|last1=Taylor|first1=Kate|last2=Manly|first2=Lorne|title=Tracking Stolen Art, for Profit, and Blurring a Few Lines|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/arts/design/tracking-stolen-art-for-profit-and-blurring-a-few-lines.html|accessdate=2017-02-25|work=New York Times|date=20 September 2013}}</ref><ref name="The Art Newspaper">{{cite news|last1=Gerlis|first1=Melanie|title=Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group|url=http://theartnewspaper.com/news/gloves-come-off-in-fight-to-run-international-database-of-stolen-works-of-art/|accessdate=2017-02-27|work=The Art Newspaper|date=26 January 2016}}</ref> In an article published by the Times, Parisian police officer Thomas Erhardy stated that "Radcliffe ruins everything" commenting on his interference with police investigations into stolen art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tom-flynn.blogspot.it/2014/08/radcliffe-ruins-everything-art-loss.html|title="Radcliffe ruins everything." Art Loss Register chairman under scrutiny for passing money to Balkan gangsters|website=tom-flynn.blogspot.it|accessdate=2017-04-20}}</ref> |
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In 2015, Radcliffe's Register was found to have been in the middle of several art related disputes. Their certificates of clearance were used by looters, possessors of stolen artworks, and Nazi-looted works that appeared for sale at TEFAF. The ALR issued clearance certificates for a Nazi looted El Greco and then denied that they knew about the work. An ALR spokesman corrected his statements to the press when confronted with this issue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/stolen-art-why-no-one-can-say-for-sure/|title=Stolen Art, Why no one can say for sure|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=}}</ref> |
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As of 2016, the Art Loss Register claims to be the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art, with more than 300,000 items.<ref name="Kerr2016">{{cite book|author=John Kerr|title=The Securitization and Policing of Art Theft: The Case of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eH61CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|accessdate=2017-02-27|date=9 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-01648-9|pages=99–101}}</ref> |
As of 2016, the Art Loss Register claims to be the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art, with more than 300,000 items.<ref name="Kerr2016">{{cite book|author=John Kerr|title=The Securitization and Policing of Art Theft: The Case of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eH61CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|accessdate=2017-02-27|date=9 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-01648-9|pages=99–101}}</ref> |
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== Honours == |
== Honours == |
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Radcliffe was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1999 and the [[Queen's Volunteer Reserves Medal|QVRM]] in 2004<ref name="theartbusinessconference.com" /> for activities unrelated to his work at the Art Loss Register. |
Radcliffe was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1999 and the [[Queen's Volunteer Reserves Medal|QVRM]] in 2004<ref name="theartbusinessconference.com" /> for activities unrelated to his work at the Art Loss Register. |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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Radcliffe lives in Battersea, London,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02455350/officers|title=INTERNATIONAL ART AND ANTIQUE LOSS REGISTER LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|accessdate=2017-04-20 |
Radcliffe lives in Battersea, London,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02455350/officers|title=INTERNATIONAL ART AND ANTIQUE LOSS REGISTER LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|accessdate=2017-04-20}}</ref> |
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Radcliffe's favourite painting is ''A Cornfield'', 1815, by [[Peter De Wint]], in the collection of the [[V&A]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/art-and-antiques/favourite-painting-julian-radcliffe-90290|title=My favourite painting: Julian Radcliffe – Country Life|date=3 June 2016|publisher=}}</ref> |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 07:50, 5 January 2018
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| Born | Julian Guy Yonge Radcliffe August 1948 (age 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Eton |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder, chairman and majority shareholder, Art Loss Register |
Julian Guy Yonge Radcliffe OBE (born August 1948) is a British businessman, and the founder and chairman of the Art Loss Register (ALR).
Early life
He was educated at Eton, followed by New College, Oxford, from where he has a degree in politics and economics.[1][2]
Career
In 1970, Radcliffe joined Hogg Robinson, as a Lloyd's of London insurance broker.[2] In 1990, he founded the Art Loss Register.[2]
Radcliffe is the majority shareholder in the Art Loss Register, with auction houses Sotheby's (a/k/a Oatshare Ltd.) owning about 11%, Christie's about 3%.[3] In 2008. In 2013, Radcliffe said that the ALR has lost money for ten years, only surviving thanks to his own cash injections.[4]
As of 2016, the Art Loss Register claims to be the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art, with more than 300,000 items.[5]
Honours
Radcliffe was awarded an OBE in 1999 and the QVRM in 2004[2] for activities unrelated to his work at the Art Loss Register.
Personal life
Radcliffe lives in Battersea, London,[6]
References
- ^ "The murky world of the art detective – The Times".
- ^ a b c d "Julian Radcliffe – Art Business Conference".
- ^ [1]Companies House Gov.UK
- ^ "Optical Due Diligence: Art Loss Register Claims To Vet Ancient Art. Does it?". Chasing Aphrodite. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ John Kerr (9 March 2016). The Securitization and Policing of Art Theft: The Case of London. Routledge. pp. 99–101. ISBN 978-1-317-01648-9. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "INTERNATIONAL ART AND ANTIQUE LOSS REGISTER LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
