John Hawkins established J B Hawkins Antiques and is a founder member of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers' Association

JB Hawkins Antiques has supplied items to the following institutions:

The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria
The Art Gallery of South Australia
The Geelong Gallery, Victoria
The National Library of Australia, Canberra
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Art
The National Museum of Scotland
The National Army Museum, Edinburgh
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
The National Museum of Australia, Canberra
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Hawkins established J B Hawkins Antiques in Australia in 1967, he is a founder member of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers’ Association and was the second President from 1993 to 2000.

Born and educated in England, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1962. Resigning his commission he emigrated to Australia in 1967.

In 1973 he wrote the catalogue and staged the pioneer exhibition held by the National Trust (NSW) at Lindesay in Sydney, “Australian Silver 1800 – 1900”.

Five further books have been written “Thomas Cole and Victorian Clockmaking” (1975), “The Al Tajir Collection of Silver” (1985), “Nineteenth Century Australian Silver” (1990), “Irish and Scottish Cabinet Makers and their influence over Australian Colonial Furniture in Sydney and Hobart before 1840” and in 2010 “Zoomorphic”.

He lives in Tasmania, Australia and is acknowledged both internationally and within Australia as having assembled some of the worlds foremost collections of antiques.