ABOUT US

Tom Mendel read Theology and the History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge, before going on to run the Picture sales for an auction house in West London. Tom set up Nonesuch in 2020, and operates by appointment in central London. The gallery specialises in European works on paper from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. We exhibited as part of London Art Week, and participate in Master Drawings New York and the Trois Crayons Summer Exhibition.

Tom is the youngest member of the Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD), and has been featured in both FRIEZE and CULTURED as part of pieces on a new generation of art dealers and the changing face of the Old Masters art market. He has a particular personal interest in paintings on vellum by Northern Italian artists of the 17th century. Highlights of the gallery's work to date include the rediscovery of one of J.M.W. Turner's final 'vignettes', for the Irish poet Thomas Moore's 'Epicurean' (1837); the sale to an important private collection of a masterpiece by Britain's first Jewish female painter, Catherine da Costa, in collaboration with The Limner Company; and the sale of one of just a handful of contemporary portraits of the celebrated Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tom was also previously the interim managing director of TROIS CRAYONS, a centralising space for all drawing-related activity worldwide, to facilitate and encourage engagement with the historic “father” of the arts.