Martin Levy

Martin Levy is a high profile member of the London antiques trade. In additional to running Blairman’s with his wife Patricia, he has previously served at the chairman of BADA and the Grosvenor House fair vetting committees as well as acting as treasurer of the furniture history society.

He is a regular lecturer in the UK and US and contributes articles, book reviews and exhibition reviews to various publications.

ATG letter: I believe the ‘transparency’ of the export bar process makes it ‘worthy of retention in its present form’

09 October 2026

In describing the work of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (Letters, ATG No 2763) Martyn Downer says that the ‘often baffling temporary export bar process needs to be reviewed itself’: why?

Plea to raise final £40,000 for Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries

17 April 2024

The Society of Antiquaries and the Kelmscott Campaign Group, led by antiques dealer Martin Levy, are hoping to raise the final £40,000 needed to conserve Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries.

Parliament proves it can complete a deal

07 October 2019

A missing Pugin parliamentary letter box has been returned to the Palace of Westminster more than 100 years after it disappeared.