Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, based in England, is an international jewellery historian, author and lecturer. Her jewellery interests range from the classical world to the present day and her extensive list of publications includes a doctoral thesis on the Italian goldsmith Antonio Gentili da Faenza (1980), the catalogue for the jewellery collection of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne (1985), and catalogues of the historical and contemporary rings in the Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland (1994 and 2019).
She has been curator for 35 years of the latter collection and continues to advise the Swiss National Museum, Zurich, where it is held today. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Beatriz was consultant curator for the redesign of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, guest curator of the Pearls exhibition (2013-14), and regularly runs courses on jewellery history. Sonya Newell-Smith began her career as a freelance photojournalist working for the Sunday Telegraph and other newspapers and magazines.
From 1978 to 2018 she ran Tadema Gallery in London, along with her late husband David Newell-Smith (1937-2017), formerly a photographer for the Observer newspaper. Today she continues to run the Gallery online and follows her passion for street photography which she shared over many decades with David.
She has been curator for 35 years of the latter collection and continues to advise the Swiss National Museum, Zurich, where it is held today. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Beatriz was consultant curator for the redesign of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, guest curator of the Pearls exhibition (2013-14), and regularly runs courses on jewellery history. Sonya Newell-Smith began her career as a freelance photojournalist working for the Sunday Telegraph and other newspapers and magazines.
From 1978 to 2018 she ran Tadema Gallery in London, along with her late husband David Newell-Smith (1937-2017), formerly a photographer for the Observer newspaper. Today she continues to run the Gallery online and follows her passion for street photography which she shared over many decades with David.