ABOUT HAVERON FINE ART
Xander Haveron-Jones, Founder
Born in Oxford in 2000, Xander Haveron-Jones read English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, before completing his Master’s degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London.
Having specialised in fine art at a Chelsea auction house, Xander founded Haveron Fine Art in January 2025. Following his discovery of an important oil painting by the influential satirist Henry Wigstead (likely his only known surviving painting), he sold the work to Yale University's Lewis Walpole Library in April 2025. The painting joined the LWL's outstanding holding of 18th century British satire and caricature.
Specialising in Old Masters pictures, Xander has a particular interest in British painters and portraits of the 17th-18th centuries. Recent discoveries include exceptional portraits by Mary Beale, Sir Peter Lely, Thomas Hudson, and an outstanding Philippe Mercier, which is among the earliest of the artist's known works. Xander also has an enthusiasm for Modern British artists, particularly the post-Impressionist works of Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951). Walker's Young Man in a Red Tie was until recently a charming addition to the Haveron Fine Art inventory, and was bought by an important private collection of Modern British artworks in the United States.
Haveron Fine Art endeavours to integrate the academic with the decorative, offering Old Master paintings of both historic and aesthetic value. A diversified approach looks to revive the eclecticism of Britain’s great collections, crossing centuries and continents to promote a wide-reaching taste.
Xander works to utilise thorough art historical study to enrich collectors' appreciation for artworks, whose long physical lifespans so often undergo regular changes of ownership, favour, and attribution. The (often surprising) multiplicity of artworks' lived histories can provide fascinating historical insights, and vastly enhance the pleasure of an artwork enjoyed in one's private space.
Fascinated by the material considerations of pictures, Xander has found a particular joy in studying provenance of artworks, whose many centuries of survival can all too easily become separated in a moment of neglect or miscataloguing. These efforts render the past accessible through the artwork as a physical, historical inheritance.
Based between London, Edinburgh, and Oxford, Haveron Fine Art operates as an online-only gallery with in-person viewings available upon request. The website showcases artworks currently available for purchase, with focused research and cataloguing which serves to demonstrate Xander and Cameron's considered approach.
Please direct any enquiries to xander@haveronfineart.co.uk. Xander would be pleased to discuss the available works, acquisitions, and general observations.
Whilst studying in Edinburgh, Cameron was also employed by the National Trust for Scotland, a position which began his fascination with provenance research. He delivered a number of successful paid lectures for the Trust, whose subjects included the exile of Charles X of France to Edinburgh.
Cameron refined his connoisseurial abilities with research carried out for numerous published articles, including an examination of the Jacobite iconography in an unrecorded 18th century portrait of James I, as well as a re-examination of the provenance of Lord and Lady Belhaven’s double portrait, previously at Ham House.
Cameron joined Haveron Fine Art in October 2025, and his first discovery was a previously unknown portrait by Gerard Soest, sold to a British private collector in January 2026. More recent outstanding discoveries include works by Sir Peter Lely, Jacob Huysmans, and Philippe Mercier.
Born in 2002, Cameron spent his childhood in rural Derbyshire, and first discovered the joys of British Old Master paintings in the county’s famed treasure houses: Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Melbourne Hall (to name but a few). He attended Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, where he first studied History of Art, and went on to the University of Edinburgh, where he achieved a First Class degree in the subject.
Specialising in British paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries, Cameron developed a particular interest in the cultures of collecting and patronage at the court of James I. He produced a highly-praised dissertation on the development of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham’s programme of self-representation, the first academic thesis to methodically examine the art historical evolution of George’s personal image.
Cameron worked for the National Galleries of Scotland alongside his undergraduate studies, and has strong memories of the hours spent privately with the collection outside of public opening hours. Among his favourite works were Dobson’s portrait of Charles II, and the outstanding Lely pair of the Duke and Duchess of York.
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Cameron Webster, Co-Partner
