Sloans & Kenyon

Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers is Metropolitan Washington DC's premier antiques and fine art auction house; the firm conducts estate catalogue auctions five times a year and couture, and jewelry monthly. The company is the successor firm to Washington's C.G. Sloan & Co., which was established in 1853. Sloans & Kenyon recently has sold property at auction from the estates of celebrity psychic Jeane Dixon and former Washington, DC, Councilman Jim Graham, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, the National Press Club, U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Phillips Collection, Blair House Restoration Fund, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Italian Embassy, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Victorian Society in America, Tudor Place, CarrAmerica Realty Corporation, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Washington Teachers’ Union, Universalist National Memorial Church, the United Negro College Fund, and Georgetown Presbyterian Church (all Washington DC); the Baltimore Museum of Art and Homewood Museum (both Baltimore, MD); Darnall's Chance Museum, Upper Marlboro MD; James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, Fredericksburg, VA; Auburn Farm, Thurmont MD; Museum of American Presidents, Strasburg, VA; "Oakland," Petersville, MD; The Wayside Inn, Middletown, VA; the collections of actress Jane Withers, Ambassador Richard W. Carlson, Alice Pike Barney, Frank Hodsoll, Fourth Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Count Rodolfo Giusti de Marle, Bali, Indonesia; Ambassador William Itoh, Senator Edward William Brooke (R- Massachusetts) and CNN Anchor David Ensor; and the estates of arts patron Ina Ginsburg, Baroness Garnet Von Stackelberg, Countess Adelaide D'Eudeville, Esmeralda Alcoforado, Roberta McCain, Gladys Ponton de Arce Bendetsen, David Alvey Reed, Virginia Summerlin Wilcox, art dealer Theodore A. “Ted” Cooper, and painter Pierce Rice (all Washington, DC); E. Brooke Lee, Jr., Arthur J. Phelan, Jr., and Benjamin Franklin Kahn, Chevy Chase, MD; Jean Alexandra "Sandy" McCain Morgan, Annapolis, MD; General Roland H. delMar, Petersville, MD; Mrs. E. Delong Bowman, Vantage Point Farm, Middleburg, VA; Robert Vick and Charles Sibley, Sycamore Farm, Portsmouth, VA; Samuel M. Hyatt, London, Berlin, and Washington DC; Sophia and Leonidas Arvanitidis, Monaco; and Kenkichi Yokohama, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Sir Sidney Barton, British Ambassador to Peking.