Ray Waterhouse has been working in the international art trade for over 40 years after being awarded a First-Class degree in Art History and History at London University in 1973. He went on to establish Waterhouse & Dodd gallery in London in 1987 with Jonathan Dodd. He now lives and works in New York, where he runs Fine Art Brokers, assisting all levels of collectors as well as continuing to act as a private adviser to a select few important collectors.

His specialist knowledge is in Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Post-War art but, given his enormous art-market experience, he is knowledgeable in most areas of the market. He has developed close ties with museum curators, artists, private collectors and dealers across the globe. Ray has helped form a number of important private collections of European and American art – one of which is worth well over $200 million – yet he still enjoys working with new collectors and helping them form a collecting strategy. He has been entrusted with buying individual paintings – up to the value of $22 million – without his clients even viewing the works, and has also helped many clients sell art discreetly and at very favorable prices.

Ray lectures widely on the subject of collecting art and how to establish value. His previous talks have been organized in both public and private forums in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Basel, Miami, London and elsewhere around the world.

Jonathan Dodd brings nearly 40 years’ experience of the international art market to his role at Fine Art Brokers. Having read Law and History of Art at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he worked in an antiquarian print gallery before joining forces with Ray Waterhouse at Galerie George in 1982, and with him founding Waterhouse & Dodd in 1987. Based in London, Jonathan travels widely and has built up a network of contacts for buying art throughout Europe and the US. These include dealers, private collectors, artists, art advisers, artists’ estates and museum curators.

Originally, Jonathan’s specialist field was 19th- and early 20th-century European art, encompassing Victorian and Academic art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism but, over the years, this has extended to most collected areas from pre-Renaissance to contemporary art. He has written for magazines about art and collecting, and has lectured in London, Hong Kong and throughout the US.

Jonathan works with a number of private collectors, advising them on both buying and selling artworks. He has developed numerous relationships over many years – and indeed has worked regularly with two clients since the 1980s.

Sandra joined the Fine Art Brokers team in 2011. She is one of our primary specialists in Contemporary American and European art and also is the Director of Modern and Contemporary Art for Waterhouse & Dodd’s New York gallery where she directs operations, events and acts as an artist liaison to the gallery’s top-selling Contemporary artists.

After growing up in Paris and living in Italy, Sandra moved to the US in 2006 and has been involved in the contemporary art world since then. She works closely with Ray Waterhouse to develop Fine Art Brokers in the US and has successfully helped clients worldwide in acquiring contemporary works of art through private sales and international art fairs. Sandra studied the business aspects of the art market at New York University and is bi-lingual in English and French.

Paul Carney has a wide variety of art market experience after more than two decades in the industry. He is a specialist in Modern and Contemporary American art, having worked for a private dealer in New York researching artworks and arranging logistics, then becoming a Director at Salon 94, a leading gallery in New York in Modern and Contemporary Art. Paul has a deep love for the complex historical entanglement of political and economic influences on the creative process. He understands the importance of client relations and the level of quality and content necessary for longevity in the industry.

As a practicing artist, Paul offers first-hand insight into the process and materials of artworks. He fabricated and produced artworks displayed in museum exhibitions such as Terry Adkins’ “Avarium” sculptures in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and later his MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College.

Hélène de Saint Chamas has been Fine Art Brokers’ representative in Paris since its launch in 2000. Offering exemplary levels of service, expertise, a highly trained eye for works of quality and an established network of contacts throughout France, Hélène has sourced innumerable works of the finest quality from both private collections, dealers and the trade from around the country. Fluent in English, early in her career she managed an art business in Australia before returning to Paris to direct a leading gallery for five years, prior to joining Fine Art Brokers.

Hélène studied History of Art and Archaeology at the Sorbonne and is an expert in French painting in the 18th century through to the present day.

Lily Pendery joined Fine Art Brokers as Advisory Manager in 2023. Bringing over 10 years of art world experience she works closely with Ray Waterhouse in the New York office researching artworks for clients and preparing art market reports. Lily worked at Artnet Auctions for several years where she supported senior specialists by cataloguing and sourcing contemporary artwork, as well as developing their client base. Prior to joining Fine Art Brokers, she managed the studio of Merrill Wagner where she worked on several important international exhibitions.

Lily received her MA in the History of Art from University College London, UK and BA in the History of Art from Connecticut College, CT. She is a USPAP compliant appraiser and a candidate member with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).