Fine Arts
Meet the expert: George Williams
The antique dealer and furniture restorer on his appreciation of the artist Holbein and reading up on 19th-century English furniture
George Williams has been dealing in and restoring 18th- and 19th-century furniture for more than 40 years. He is a specialist in Irish Georgian furniture and has worked extensively with many important private and national collections. He is based in Co Meath where he and his wife Maggy run George Williams Antiques.
Williams traces his passion for furniture back to when he was about six years old.
“I remember that we had an 18th-century French ...