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Guy Stair Sainty
EducationWestminster and College of Law
OccupationArt dealer
SpouseElizabeth Pierson Sainty
ChildrenSix
Parent(s)Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair

Guy Stair Sainty is an art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry.

Life and education

Guy Sainty is the son of the late Christopher Lawrence Sainty of Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex and Virginia Cade, née Stair, and brother of Sir John Sainty. His grandfather, Arthur Stair, was an architect who later founded Stair & Company, an art and antique dealing company in Manhattan and London, while his great-grandfather, Edwin Cade, founded the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, which operated gold mines in Ghana.[1] He was born at Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex where he served as a county staff officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade.[2] He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and Westminster School, London, and continued his education in Rome and at The College of Law in London.[2] In 1979, he moved to New York[3] and founded the Stair Sainty Gallery .[4] In May 1983, he married Cynthia Volk and the two had three children.[1] After this marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1993 and annulled by the Catholic Church in 1995,[citation needed] Sainty married Elizabeth Pierson, a private dealer in 19th and 20th century art in New York, in Washington on 28 May 1995 and in a second, Catholic ceremony, at the London Oratory on 28 September 1995.[5] With his second wife, Sainty had three more children.[3] In 2005 he founded a new gallery, Stair Sainty Ltd at a premises at 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4LN, which he shares with two other art dealers, Count Edmondo di Robilant (married to Dr Maya Even) and Marco Voena.[6]

Published works

Sainty has contributed to many works on art of the early modern period. In addition, one of his most ambitious works to date has been the publication of World Orders of Knighthood and Merit by Burke's Peerage and Gentry (ISBN 0971196672). It was co-edited by Rafal Heydel-Mankoo in 2006. He has also written extensively on individual orders of chivalry, such as the Sacred Military Order of Constantine of Saint George and the five recognised Orders of Saint John. His published works include:

  • Sacred Military Order of Constantine of Saint George 1976
  • First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV the the Revolution 1985
  • François Boucher: His Circle and Influence 1987
  • The Orders of Chivalry and Merit of the Bourbon Two Sicilies Dynasty 1989
  • Eighty Years of French Painting: 1775-1855 1991
  • The Orders of Saint John 1991
  • La Insigne Orden de Tosón de Oro 1996
  • Romance and Chivalry: Literature and History Reflected in Early 19th Century French Painting 1996
  • An Eye on Nature II: French Landscape Painting from 1785-1900 1999

In addition he has written numerous articles in scholarly publications on nobility, European royal dynasties, and orders of chivalry. He also maintains an extensive website detailing the histories and current status of many chivalric orders.

Appointments, awards, and decorations

Guy Sainty has been involved in the world of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He has served as leader of the International Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums[citation needed], and as a consultant to the Committee on Orders of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Alliance of Orders of Saint John.[citation needed] He is a member of the Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid[citation needed] and has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St John Ambulance. Sainty was later made an officer, then commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 16 June 1989.[7] On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of knight in that Order[8] and currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US.[9] He was formerly a member of the Savoyard Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[10] but resigned in 2006[citation needed] and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, of which he is a Bailiff Grand Cross.[11] Sainty's armorial bookplate shows the insignia of the Order of St. Januarius, the Venerable Order of Saint John, the Order of St. Gregory the Great, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, the Order of Merito Melitense of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Order of Saint Joseph of Tuscany.[12]

Sainty is also an armiger having had arms granted by the College of Arms in London, matriculated at the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, and certified by the Cronista de Armas in Spain. The blazon of these arms is Azure a Chief Gules over all in pale two Hippocampuses respectant Or and in the Azure two Keys palewise wards upwards and outwards the bows linked in Or.[13]

Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani

In Italy Rosario Poidimani brought a libel suit against Sainty's internet analysis of the pretender Maria Pia of Braganza and Rosario to the Portuguese Crown.[14] In August 2004 the court ruled that Poidimani was not entitled to any financial compensation from Sainty but the lawsuit is still continuing .[15]

References

  1. ^ a b "Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty - New York Times". The New York Times. 5 February 1983. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  2. ^ a b "World Orders of Knighthood & Merit - Contributors" (PDF). Burke's Peerage & Gentry (UK). None Given. Retrieved 2007-05-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Class Notes". Colorado College. 1995. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  4. ^ "ROBILANT + VOENA". Robilant and Voena. None Given. Retrieved 2007-06-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Gazette: Archive View". London Gazette. 16 June 1989. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  6. ^ "Gazette: Archive View". London Gazette. 30 July 1992. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  7. ^ "THE PRIORY IN THE UNITED STATES OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM" (PDF). Venerable Order of St John. 15 November 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  8. ^ ": : Events : :". American Delegation of Savoy Orders. August 2003. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  9. ^ "MEMBERSHIP - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  10. ^ "G Britain III". José Vicente de Bragança & J. Stewart LeForte. 15 May 1998. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  11. ^ "Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry". Jérôme Grimbert. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  12. ^ "A BRIEF RESPONSE TO STATEMENTS MADE BY THE SUPPORTERS OF THE LATE MARIA PIA DE SAXE". Guy Stair Sainty. None Given. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "POIDIMANI_SAINTY". International Commission for Orders of Chivalry. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
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