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The MacConnal-Mason family have now been established as art dealers for over one hundred and twenty years, and I felt that many of our clients might find it interesting to know something of the heritage that we enjoy. The family involvement commenced in 1893 when my Great Uncle, Rayner MacConnal formed a partnership with Archibald Phillips founding a company called Phillips & MacConnal. The head office was in the Burlington Arcade, London with a branch in Bournemouth (pictured) and The Art Gallery at the Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire. Phillips & MacConnal went on to also open a branch in Liverpool at Castle Street. Between the two World Wars, Phillips died and the company was then carried on by Rayner MacConnal and the name changed accordingly. In 1935 my father Leslie MacConnal-Mason and Rayner MacConnal’s son Joseph MacConnal joined the company and traded from the main gallery at 3, Old Bond Street, with a branch in Harrogate called the Grosvenor Galleries.

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