Sebastian Clarke joins Rago’s as director of Estate Services

Sebastian Clarke, newly appointed director of Estate Services at Rago Arts & Auction Center. Image courtesy of Rago’s.

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Sebastian Clarke has joined Rago Arts and Auction Center as director of Estate Services and a specialist in Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts.

Clarke hails from a family of British art experts, including both his parents. Arriving in the U.S. in 1995, he worked as an apprentice restorer and art handler for Simon Parkes Art Conservation. He began his career in auctions at C.G. Sloane, served as a specialist in the European Furniture department at Sotheby’s, as director of the English and Continental furniture department at Freeman’s and at Doyle New York as a senior vice-president and director of the English and Continental Furniture and Decorations department.

Sebastian Clarke is an auctioneer, well known for his work on the charity circuit, and an expert appraiser in multiple categories (furniture, decorative arts, sculpture and metalwork and silver) for the PBS series Antiques Roadshow.

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Sebastian Clarke, newly appointed director of Estate Services at Rago Arts & Auction Center. Image courtesy of Rago’s.