By Roland Arkell
Jonathan Pratt, among the best-known faces of the UK regional auction scene, is to leave Bellmans to become managing director of Dreweatts 1759. Based at Donnington Priory, he will work alongside George Bailey who will assume the role of chairman. Pratt will begin his new role on August 13.
A regular on BBC’s Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, he took his first steps in the auction world at Dreweatts, working at his then local auction house on two occasions before joining Sotheby’s Sussex in 2002.