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'''Peter John Nahum''' (born 19 January 1947) is an English art dealer, author, lecturer, and journalist who isbest known for his manyfrequent appearances on the long running [[BBC]] television programmeprogram ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'', onin which he appearedwas present from 1981 to 2002.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/antiquesuk/aboutseries/appraisers/nahum.html</ref> He discovered a long lost [[Richard Dadd]] paintingwatercolor on the show which was subsequently sold to the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3673781/Richard-Dadd-madness-and-beauty.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Richard Dadd: madness and beauty | first=Jennifer | last=Higgie | date=31 May 2008 | accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref>

Nahum was educated at [[Sherborne School]] and began his career at Peter Wilson's [[Sotheby's]] in 1966. DuringIn his 17 years with the company, he initiated the Victorian Painting Department at the newlyrecently opened Sotheby's [[Belgravia]] in 1971 and was head of the British Painting Department (1840 to Contemporary) until his departure in 1984. HeHaving was alsobeen a Senior Director sitting onin the chairman's committee and advisor to the [[British Rail]] [[Pension Fund]] on Victorian Paintings.<ref name=Roadshow>{{cite book|date= 2005|author=David Battie and Fiona Malcolm|isbn=[1-84533-060-9|title=The Antiques Roadshow|publisher=Mitchell Beazley}}</ref> He has handled a large proportion of the most important Victorian paintings to come on the market.]

He left Sotheby's in 1984 to open his own gallery, The [[Leicester Galleries]],{{#tag:ref|He acquired the name in 1984 of the [[Leicester Galleries]] founded in 1902 and first located off of [[Leicester Square]]. It held its last show in 1975.|group="nb"}} in [[St James's, London]], specialisingspecializing in paintings,premium drawingsquality and sculptures of the highest qualityart from the 19th and 20th centuries. He now works independently, activelyas buyinga and selling and is currentlyworldwide adviser to majorfor private collections andalong with museums, throughoutand the world,a signatory on authentication certificates for Victorian paintings sold to Japan, andas well as an official valuer for the [[Department of Arts, Heritage andthe Environment of(Australia, the Government of Australia2013–2016)|DEWHA]]. He also acts as a celebrityknown auctioneer for many charities. He is a television personality, academic, lecturer, author, frame designer, and frequent lender of paintings to international exhibitions. In addition, he designed, created and built the trading website, Online Galleries, for the top 5,000 art and antique dealers of the world, all members of C.I.N.O.A. and their own national trade associations. This website, www.onlinegalleries.com, gives the dealers a trading platform and a chance to display their wares in their own purpose built websites and "Online Galleries", and gives the public the opportunity to buy with confidence from dealers who trade under strict codes of conduct.

From 1981 to 2002 Peter Nahum was a regularcommon contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow rediscoveringfrom 1981 to 2002, retrieving [[Richard Dadd]]'s lost watercolourwatercolor ''Artists Halt in the Desert'' in 1987, which was latergot sold to the [[British Museum]], and an album of Filipino landscapes sold in 1995 for £240,000. Other BBC Television appearances include Omnibus, (1983), with [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]] on Richard Dadd's ''Oberon and Titania'', and In at the Deep End, (1984), a three45-quarterminute of an hourlong program duringin which he taught television journalist [[Chris Searle]] to auctioneerAuctioneer. He has also appeared on Breakfast Television, ''The City Program'', andThe ''Signals'', and onThe ''Sixty Minutes'', to name a few,and as well as variousseveral radio talk shows. {{Citation needed|date=DecemberOctober 20092023}}. Throughout his career, he has reportedturned fakerscounterfeiters to authorities, reporting the police[[Shaun andGreenhalgh|Greenhalgh hasfamily]] hadto successthe bothpolice inwith seeingfull themevidence convictedin and1986, seeingalthough theit lawtook crystallizedanother in16 respectyears to convict them., and witnessed the legal definition of fakes and faking. InAs of this, respect he hashaving appeared in ''The Artful Codgers'' made for BBC Four in November 2007. ItIn was Peter1984, Nahum who first reported the [[Shaun Greenhalgh|Greenhalgh family]] to the police with full evidence in 1984, although it took another 16 years to convict them.

In 1986, Peter Nahum lectured on "Victorian Painters as Super Stars -– Their Public and Private Art", at the [[Smithsonian Institution]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington DC, USA]];, and in 1993 on "The Poetry of Crisis.: British Art 1933-19511933–1951" at the [[Victoria & Albert Museum]],. LondonMore recently [<nowiki/>[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and morenumbers#Chronological recentlyitems|''when?'']]] he spoke on "The Strange Forces around the Finding of Richard Dadd’s "''Artist’s Halt in the Desert''", for the [[Art Fund|National Arts Collection Fund]]. He lectures to student bodies and various other organisationsorganizations.

*''Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM RA -– A Catalogue of Thirty Five Paintings and Watercolours, Designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Sotheby & Co, 1973''

*''Prices of Victorian Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, by Peter Nahum, Carter Nash Cameron, 1976 {{ISBN|0214202240|}}''

*''Monograms of Victorian and Edwardian Artists, by Peter Nahum, Victoria Square Press, 1976 {{ISBN|9780950529509|}}''

*''Victorian Painters' Monograms, by Peter Nahum, W. Foulsham & Co., 1977''

*''Jessie M. King and E. A. Taylor -– Illustrator and Designer, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Paul Harris Publishing and Sotheby's Belgravia, 1977''

*''Cross Section, British Art in The Twentieth Century, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989''

*''British Art from the Twentieth Century, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989''

*''Burne-Jones, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Century, 2 volumes, by Hilary Morgan and Peter Nahum, Peter Nahum Limited, 1989''

*''Michael Rothenstein's Boxes, by Mel Gooding, conceived, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, Art Books International Ltd, 1992''

*''Burne-Jones A Quest for Love, by Bill Waters, co-authored, edited and published by Peter Nahum, Peter Nahum Ltd, 1993''

*''Henri Gaudier-Brzeska -– A Sculptor Drawings, conceived, designed and edited by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 1995''

*''John Tunnard, His Life and his Work, Alan Peat and Brian Whitton (foreword by Peter Nahum), Scolar Press, London, 1997''

*''Fairy Folk in Fairy Land, by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 1998''

*''Pre-Raphaelite . Symbolist . Visionary, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2001''

*''Medieval to Modern, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2003''

*''The Brotherhood of Ruralists and The Pre-Raphaelites, by Peter Nahum and Sally Burgess, The Leicester Galleries, 2005''

*''Master Drawings, The Leicester Galleries, 2006''

*''[[Paul R. Gregory|Paul Raymond Gregory]]; My Secret Book, designed and written by Peter Nahum, The Leicester Galleries, 2007''

*''Ancient Landscapes -– Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists, by Anne Anderson, Robert Meyrick and Peter Nahum, Southampton City Art Gallery, April–June 2008; then touring Victoria Gallery Bath, Falmouth Art Gallery and Cube Gallery Plymouth until 19 December 2008''

*Past and Present: Edward Burne-Jones, His Medieval Sources and Their Relevance to his Personal Journey, by William Waters and Peter Nahum, in Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise, [[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart]] and Kunstmuseum Bern, pages 179-203179–203, Hartje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009

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