Helen rosslyn art historian biography

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    The Countess of Rosslyn and her daughter Lady Alice St Clair-Erskine at the Royal AcademyRick Pushinsky

    The Academicians’ Room at the Royal Academy is an elegant and plushly upholstered space, with groovy prints on the walls and a sedate, coffee-cup clinking atmosphere. But for one night a year, it’s the site of a raucous art party: the London Original Print Fair’s Young Collectors’ Evening. At the inaugural event, in 2012, the room was packed, with bright young things spilling out on to the balcony as a curator of Old Master prints clambered on a sofa to toast the art buyers of the future. The clamour of debate and strains of Sister Sledge’s ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’ travelled as far as Albany. It’s hard to picture, on a Wednesday morning at the Royal Academy, where Helen Rosslyn and Lady Alice St Clair-Erskine, the mother-and-daughter team behind the fair, describe the party. ‘I don’t think the RA had seen anything like it,’ laughs Helen. ‘They loved it,’ says Alice. ‘They t

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    She talks to the Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle, goes behind the scenes at Wilton House to see the largest Van Dyck family portrait in Britain; takes a guided tour of the Claude landscape room at Holkham Hall with the Earl of Leicester; and visits Petworth House where she discusses Turner’s canvases (works that still hang in the room for which they were painted) with the Countess of Egremont.

    Castle HowardLeonid Andronov / Alamy Stock Photo

    There’s also a stop off at Castle Howard – aka Bridgerton’s Clyvedon Castle – a talk with Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor and a look at Verrio’s show-stopping Hell Staircase at Burghley House, Cambridgeshire.

    Verrio’s extravagant Hell Staircase at Burghley House, CambridgeshireInstagram / burghleyhouse

    ‘Collecting in Britain reached its maturity in the 19th century when unprecedented wealth from the booming economy encouraged enlightened industrialists to spend their fortunes on art and donate their collections to the nation, f

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    Helen Rosslyn has been the Director of the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Arts since 1987. Having specialised in prints at Christie's, Helen fryst vatten a respected writer and presenter of television art history documentaries. Her recent BBC series Brought with Love, The Secret History of British Art Collections brought to light Helen's own passion for the nation's important collections. 

     

    As Chair of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust Fundraising Committee, Helen has recently spearheaded a £10 million conservation programme at the C15th Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. 

     

    Helen fryst vatten Arts Editor for Tatler and presenter of the Tatler online short spelfilm series In the Frame.

     

     

    Television credits include:

    Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone  |  BBC Four

    Great Estates  |  PBS, USA

    Bought with Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections  |  BBC Fou