Princeton resident Sebastian Clarke has joined Rago Arts and Auction Center.
Princeton resident Sebastian Clarke has joined Rago Arts and Auction Center as the director of Estate Services and a specialist in Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts.
Clarke has appeared as an expert appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow. On the series, he appraises furniture, decorative arts, sculpture and metalwork, and silver.
In addition to television appearances, Clarke is an auctioneer. He is known for his work on the charity circuit.
Clarke hails from a family of British art experts, including both his parents. Arriving in the U.S. in 1995, he worked as an apprentice restorer and art handler for Simon Parkes Art Conservation.
He began his career in auctions at C.G. Sloane, served as a specialist in the European Furniture department at Sotheby’s, as director of the English and Continental furniture department at Freeman’s and at Doyle New York as a senior vice president and director of the English and Continental Furniture and Decorations department.
Rago is a leading U.S. auction house with $30 million in annual sales. Rago holds auctions of 20th and 21st century design, fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry, militaria, coins and currency, Asian, historic ephemera, and ethnographic property. Along with auctions, it offers valuations for personal property, appraisals, estate services, exhibitions and lectures in house and online. Rago is based in Lambertville.
More information is online at ragoarts.com.
