Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd

Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd has over three decades of experience in the global art market. He has worked for the four main auction houses in London, and been founding director of London Art Week and Master Drawings New York.

In 1974 Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books was started, and he traded in Arabia, Japan, USA and Europe.  His most significant sales were of the 14^th Century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad, and collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith. Hamish died in August 2020 and his business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, Director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, Director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.