ARTHUR TOOTH GALLERY
Arthur Tooth & Sons was a prominent London art gallery at 5 & 6 Haymarket, which was founded in 1842 by Charles Tooth (1788–1868), a carver and framer, to set up his son Arthur Tooth (1828–1900) in business and in 1866, they opened a new purpose-built gallery at 5 Haymarket. Until the 1880s, the business concentrated exclusively on 18th and 19th British paintings but gradually the stock was extended to encompass Old Masters and contemporary art. Other works of art and artefacts, such as china, furniture, and books, began to be listed in the stock inventories after 1892 and a New York branch was opened in the early 1900’s but this was closed in 1924 and they also had branch in Paris. In the mid 1920s, Dudley Tooth who was then running the gallery of Arthur Tooth & Sons, then at 155-156 New Bond Street, expanded within the pool of contemporary artists, and further promoting artists by regularly hosting a solo show of each artist’s work. The gallery remained in the Tooth family until the death of Charles' great-grandson, Dudley Tooth (1896–1972) holding its final exhibition in 1974 when it closed. The records including stock books, consignment books, correspondence, photograph albums, card indexes, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings c1884-1975 are held in the Tate Gallery Archives (TGA 201). Suffolk artists who exhibited at Arthur Tooth included Frank Beanland, Thomas Charles Sirrell Benham, Thomas Davidson, Rosemary Elliott, Allan Gwynne-Jones, Basil Jonzen, Mary Potter and Allan Walton.
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