Bunny Campione
Born
Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher

August 1946 (age 77)
England
Occupation(s)Antiques expert, television personality
Employer(s)Sotheby's (23 years tenure, Furniture Department, Collectors Department 1973-1996))
Christies London Office (senior consultant 1997-2002)
Known forAppearances on Antiques Roadshow (1985-present)
FamilyStewart Granger (uncle)

Bunny Campione (born Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher; c. August 1946)[1] is an English antiques expert known for her many appearances on the television programme Antiques Roadshow since 1985 and has published her own works on antiques.[2]

Biography

Campione is the daughter of Squadron leader Francis Colborne Fisher, of Mudeford, Hampshire,[3] and Iris (née Stewart), sister of British actor Stewart Granger. Campione became known as "Bunny" as a young child, after she was given a coat that had a hood with rabbit ears on it. She also later collected soft toy rabbits. She has been known to bizarrely claim that her given name is “Anastasia”. She studied at university in France and worked at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford for a year.[4] She then worked at Sotheby's for 23 years until 1996, gaining a wide knowledge of antiques, firstly in the furniture department and then the collectors' department.[5] She was a senior consultant at Christie's in London until 2002.

Campione lives at Daws Hall, a private nature reserve, in Lamarsh, Essex. Her husband Iain Grahame, Idi Amin’s old commander and friend, passed away on 4 September 2023.[6] She runs her own company, Campione Fine Art, buying and selling antiques on behalf of clients. She has a particular interest in, and knowledge of, automata, bird-cages, corkscrews, dolls, dolls' houses, miniature and early furniture, and soft toys.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Carolyn Elizabeth CAMPIONE personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  2. ↑ "Fair in aid of hospice". Watford Observer. 9 July 2001. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 4162
  4. ↑ Battie, David; Malcolm, Fiona (2005). The Antiques Roadshow. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 1-84533-060-9.
  5. ↑ "Bunny Campione". Antiques Roadshow. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Major Iain Grahame, Idi Amin's old commander and friend, later sent by the British to negotiate with him – obituary". The Telegraph. 21 September 2023. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  7. ↑ Iain Grahame Rare Books - Fine Sporting, Shooting, Stalking, Hunting, Natural History and Africana | About Major Books, the antiquarian booksellers of fine sporting, natural h... Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine


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