Daily Telegraph

Johnny Stuart, who has died aged 63, had no equal outside Russia as
an expert on Russian art.

The thriving market in Russian art today is largely his creation. He
founded the Russian department at Sotheby's in 1976 and over the
next 20 years built it up into a dominant position that was reflected
in Sotheby's record-breaking Russian sale of 1995.

No aspect of his field left him indifferent. Aside from his principal
interest in icons, he was equally fascinated with Russian painting of
the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as with porcelain and
objets d'art.
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