Clare McKeon is a Vice President in the Departmen of Sporting Art at Christie's Auction House in New York.

Education:
Clare is a graduate of Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Personal:
Married to Bob McKeon

Background:
Clare McKeon started her career at Christie’s London as a specialist in the Victorian Picture Department. As head of the Sporting Art sale at Christie’s New York and the US specialist for British & Irish Art in London, Ms. McKeon was responsible for the consignment of Munnings' Portrait of Ruth Brady on Bugle Call, which sold for £1,486,400 against an estimate of £1,200,000 (2005).

Clare also was involved with several successful high-profile single-owner sales in New York featuring sporting art including The John W. Kluge Morven Collection (2005); Property from a Sutton Square Residence (2005); and The Doris Duke Collection (2004). Among Ms. McKeon's earlier successes is the auction of St. Cecilia by John William Waterhouse, which sold for $10 million and set a world auction record for any Victorian Picture (2000).