Trinity Fine Art

Trinity Fine Art has dealt in Old Master paintings and European sculpture since 1984, and it works the way the scholarly end of the trade still works: by catalogue, by exhibition, and by the international fairs where museum curators do their buying.

That places the firm closer in character to the auction houses along the street than to the contemporary galleries either side of it. A picture is researched, attributed and published before it is offered, and the provenance is treated as part of the object rather than a footnote to the price.

Where to see Old Master paintings London dealers have catalogued

Italian and Northern European painting, Renaissance and Baroque sculpture, drawings and decorative works of art. The stock turns slowly by design, because a picture that needs six months of research gets six months of research before anyone sees it.

The first floor is not a shop window

Trinity Fine Art occupies a first-floor space, so there is no frontage to browse and no reason to expect one. Selling exhibitions open to the public while they run. Outside those weeks, an appointment is not a formality, it is the only way in.