Patrick Monahan

ABOUT 

Patrick Monahan is a writer and an independent art advisor to museums and private collectors, with a special interest in British Art from the 18th Century to the Present. He contributes regularly to Vanity Fair, Country Life, Air Mail, and The Paris Review, and advises the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, which holds perhaps the most important collection of Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art outside the UK. In 2015, he wrote a Vanity Fair article on Flaming June, the most reproduced Victorian painting, and its extraordinary journey from London to Puerto Rico. This began an ongoing collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Ponce, culminating in the loan of Flaming June to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2022 and to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2024.

A native New Yorker, Patrick makes regular visits to London advising on the purchase, sale, loan, and exhibition of works of art. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Cambridge University, both in art history. He is also a regular speaker at the Royal Oak Foundation, the US fundraising arm of the UK’s National Trust.

Outside the art world, Patrick has a passion for Old Hollywood and the Golden Age of Broadway. Many of the actors and actresses of that time were his personal friends, whose stories he has recorded in Vanity Fair and other publications.