Daniel Goddard BA(Hons) ASFAV

Daniel Goddard is a director of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood, the leading fine art auction house and valuers in the South West of England. Daniel is the Head of Picture Department.

Daniel Goddard attended The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the US Military Academy at West Point and in 1982 was commissioned into the Queen's Regiment serving in Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Canada and the UK.

In 1988, he travelled to Auckland, New Zealand, to play rugby and attended The Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. On his return to the family home in East Devon, Daniel joined Lawrence's in Crewkerne (Somerset) as a porter and progressed to valuation and rostrum work.

In 1996, Daniel joined Bearne's to head the Works of Art Department and, having in the meantime gained an Open University degree in Art History and Humanities, became Head of the Picture Department. He continues to run this busy department in the merged firm of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.

Daniel Goddard has been a director of the firm since 1999 and is an experienced valuer with a broad range of knowledge and specialist expertise in paintings.

He has recently catalogued and organised two major sales of paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), which raised in excess of £3 million.