Adrian Ward-Jackson

[3][2] His obituary in The Times described the decor of his flat in Mount Street as being "filled with a profusion of colour and pattern, enlivened by Renaissance bronzes, wonderful objets d'art and extraordinary French engravings of portraits and landscapes.

[6] Ward-Jackson was passionate about ballet; his obituary in the Daily Telegraph described him as working "tirelessly in the beleaguered world of dance".

[5] In 1971 Ward-Jackson was appointed a director of Colnaghi's by Jacob Rothschild, having previously been an expert in the drawings department of Christie's auction house.

[4] In November 1976 at Christie's he bought the drawings Sacra Conversazione by Vittore Carpaccio for £78,000 and Giovanni Francesco Maineri's A Pagan Sacrifice for £48,000.

[15] In May 1985 Ward-Jackson handled the Getty Museum's purchase of Antoine Caron's Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers from the collection of Anthony Blunt for £250,000.

[16] In November 1986 he again acted for them in their purchase for £2.5 million (equivalent to £9,252,594 in 2023) of a page of notes by Leonardo da Vinci from the collection of John R. Gaines of the Gaines-Burgers dog food fortune.

[17] Ward-Jackson discovered Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid in a Swiss collection which was subsequently purchased by the Metropolitan Museum in New York in July 1986 for $3 million (equivalent to $8,338,798 in 2023).

[18] Ward-Jackson also acquired pieces for the Contemporary Art Society, including work by Elizabeth Butterworth, Tony Cragg, Ian Davenport, Howard Hodgkin and Shirazeh Houshiary.

[19] Ward-Jackson donated a globe that had been dedicated to the naturalist Joseph Banks for a charity auction at Christie's in aid of the trust in June 1987.

[22] In her biography of Diana, Tina Brown described the funeral as being "populated with le tout London society like a scene from La Traviata" and that his sick bed had "for a time, become the place to be" as he received friends from London's high society while "reclining on an Oscar Wildean sofa amid Renaissance bronzes and French engravings".