Jorge Welsh Works of Art
Founded by Jorge Welsh and Luísa Vinhais, Jorge Welsh Works of Art has been devoted to the rigorous study, preservation, and responsible stewardship of cross-cultural works of art. With galleries in London and Lisbon, we are grounded in a longstanding commitment to scholarly research, connoisseurship, and the historical understanding of artistic exchange.
Over the past forty years, the gallery has assembled a carefully considered collection of important works of art, with particular strength in Chinese export porcelain, alongside significant examples of African (Afro-Portuguese), Japanese (Namban), and Indian (Indo-Portuguese) art. Dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, these works reflect the complex and sustained artistic dialogues that emerged through early global encounters, trade, and diplomacy.
Jorge Welsh Works of Art primarily participates in TEFAF Maastricht and has also been represented at leading international fairs, including Fine Art Asia in Hong Kong and Asian Art in London, reaching an international audience of scholars, collectors, and institutions.
Since 1999, the gallery’s in-house editorial division, Jorge Welsh Research & Publication, has contributed to supporting academic research and dissemination. It has produced more than sixty scholarly publications and exhibition catalogues in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese, which have become established reference works for researchers, curators, and academic institutions.
Works acquired through the gallery are today held in major museums, institutional collections, and private collections worldwide, reflecting the enduring scholarly and cultural relevance of the works presented.
Guided by the principles of academic rigour, integrity, and connoisseurship, Jorge Welsh Works of Art continues to foster informed dialogue among cultures, disciplines, and institutions. Looking ahead, the gallery remains committed to the values that have defined its first forty years: meticulous research, ethical stewardship, and a sustained engagement with the artistic legacies that shaped the early modern world.
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Our pieces have been acquired by the following museums and institutions:
Albuquerque Foundation, Sintra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT, Hong Kong
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, Geneva
Casa Colombo, Museu do Porto Santo, Porto Santo
Foundation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva
Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon
Fundação Millenium BCP, Lisbon
Fundação Oriente, Lisbon
Groninger Museum, Groningen
Guanfu Classical Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing
Guangdong Museum, Tianhe, Guangzhou
Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong
Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad
Jamestown, Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
Kyushu National Museum, Tokyo
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
Macao Museum, Macao
Madeira Tecnopolo, Funchal
Musée Cernuschi, Paris
Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, Ville de Lorient, Port-Louis
Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
Museo Oriental, Valladolid
Museu A Cidade do Açucar, Funchal
Museu Conde de Castro Guimarães, Cascais
Museu de Arte Sacra de Santiago do Cacém, Santiago do Cacém
Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal, Funchal
Museu de São Roque, Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Lisbon
Museu do Caramulo, Caramulo
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
Nanchang University Museum, Honggutan, Nanchang
National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam
National Museum, Singapore
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Prasart Museum, Bangkok
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
Schloss Museum Wolfshagen, Wolfshagen, Langelsheim
Shanghai Museum, Huangpu, Shanghai
Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden-Zwinger, Dresden
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Palace and Maritime Silk Road Museum, Quanzhou, Shishi
The Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
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Our works of art have been lent to the following museum exhibitions:
The Porcelain Room: Chinese Export Porcelain, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2020
Um Rei e Três Imperadores: Portugal, a China e Macau no Tempo de D. João V, Museu de São Roque, Lisbon 2019
Três Embaixadas Europeias à China, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, 2018
Contar Áfricas!, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon, 2018
Uma História de Assombro: Portugal – Japão, Séculos XVI a XX, Galeria D. Luís, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon, 2018
The Blue of the Seas: Dialogues between China, Persia and Europe, Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, Geneva, 2017
Portugal: Drawing the World, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg, 2017
A Cidade Global: Lisboa no Renascimento, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, 2017
Namban: os Bárbaros do Sul e o Encontro de Culturas, Museu da Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, 2016
The dancing Dragon! Kangxi / China contemporary, Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, 2015
Onde os nossos livros se acabam, ali começam os seus...:O Japão em fontes documentais dos séculos XVI e XVII, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, 2015
O Exótico nunca está em casa? A China na Faiança e no Azulejo portugueses (séculos XVI - XVIII), Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, 2013
Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013
Line and Colour: Japanese Arts and the European Connection, Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 2012
Namban Commissions: The Portuguese in Modern Age Japan, Museu Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, 2010
Fascination with the Foreign: China – Japan – Europe, Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, 2009
Encompassing the Globe: Portugal e o Mundo nos séculos XVI e XVII, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, 2009
Tomás Pereira (1646-1708): A Jesuit in Kangxi´s China, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, 2009
Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries, Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2008
O Espelho Invertido: Imagens Asiáticas dos Europeus 1500 - 1800, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, 2007
Le Grand Atelier: Europalia, Brussels, 2007
Macau: O Primeiro Século de um Porto Internacional, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, 2007
Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries, Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Columbia, 2007
São Francisco Xavier: A Sua Vida e o Seu tempo (1506-1552), Cordoria Nacional, Lisbon, 2006
Dresden, Spiegel der Welt, Die Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden in Japan, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2005
A Porcelana Chinesa nas Colecções do Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, 2005
Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2004
Peregrinações: Homenagem a Maria Helena Mendes Pinto, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2003
Province Plates: A Cultural Dialogue Between Two Civilizations, Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis, Amsterdam, 2003
Hybrides: Porcelaines Chinoises aux Armoiries Territoriales Européennes, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg, 2003
O Mundo da Laca, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2001
Os Fundamentos da Amizade: Cinco Séculos de Relações Culturais e Artísticas Luso-Chinesas, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, 1999-2000
Escolhas: Objectos Raros e de Colecção, Paços do Concelho, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e Associação Portuguesa de Antiquários, Lisbon, 1999
Vasco da Gama e a Índia, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Sorbonne Chapel, Paris, 1998
Caminhos da Porcelana, Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, 1998
Reflexos do Cristianismo na Porcelana Chinesa, Museu de São Roque, Lisbon, 1996
