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About the Freemanart Consultancy: The Freemanart Consultancy undertake professional art authentication and artist attribution investigations for private clients across the world. We provide expert forensic and scientific art analysis services, undertake in depth provenance investigations, conduct academic archival study and research into the legitimacy and authenticity of art from our offices and Forensic Laboratories in North America - Canada & Europe; England - Italy, France - Spain & Germany. Freemanart investigate the authenticity, attribution and legitimacy of all kinds of art. All schools, types and manner of fine art including; the authentication of paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints alongside verifying documents, autographs, antiques & objects of virtue from all time periods and geographical origins. Freemanart are experts dedicated to the professional investigation into the legitimacy and authenticity of fine art and antiquities. Autenticación de arte - Authentification d'art - Kunstbeglaubigung - Autenticazione di arte - Kunst Echtverklaring - Autenticação de arte - Художественное Установление подлинности - Kunst Bekreftelse - 芸術証 |
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2016>: Norman Rockwell possible self portrait oil. | Completed. Sitter unfortunately not Norman Rockwell. |
Paul Gauguin Portrait | Cancelled by us. |
Turner J M W \ Fishing boats Oil | Stripped and bonded textured paper print - commercial image on canvas |
Jackson Pollock mixed media. Sold by 'Reputable' Online auctioneers. | Unsupportable very dubious provenance, equally dubious signatures. |
Edgar Degas two Ballerinas | Completed. Old work in style of, bearing false signature from inception! |
Picasso drawing | Copy after Nu couché, 1932. Bears false signature. |
Alessio Issupoff (1889 – 1957) The Bathers Oil on canvas | Prelim completed : UV examinations confirm added fake signature. |
Lorenzo Quinn - Limited Edition Gravity sculpture | Fully investigated and officially Authenticated |
Hans Holbein. Oil on paper Portrait formerly attrib. 19th C | Prelim study completed for legal clients. Likely 17th century and thus misattributed. Awaiting further instructions |
Edgar Degas. Ballerinas painting? | Completed: Litho repro of Danseuse au bouquet, saluant sur la scène’ |
Cornelius Krieghof - Canadian | Cancelled | Copy. |
J M W Turner. Initialled Landscape oil | Bears label. Work not commensurate with Turner, date or subject Inoo |
Tiepolo / Painting? Giovanni Battista Tiepolo AKA; Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo | Later painting by anonymous hand based upon an aquatint from 'Scherzi di Fantasia,' Piatto 14: due maghi accompagnato da due bambini. |
Signed John Constable landscape oil | Completed. Bears applied signature. Follower of Constable. |
Edgar Degas - Ballerinas in blue. Oil on Canvas | Prelim completed Inoo not by this artist |
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (French 1791 –1824) For major Auctioneers. | Completed. Inoo unsupportable attribution. Anon hand. |
Maurice Utrillo - Eglise d'Auvers-sur-Oise (Val d'Oise) Church of Auvers sur Oise 1935 | Commercial print base painted over in oils. |
Paul Gauguin. Manno Tupapao – Woodcut? | Completed. Commercial lithograph |
Camile Corot - 2 separate oil landscapes (For major US Auction House) | Completed. One bearing signature and non compliant Inoo Both best described as Follower of Corot. |
John Constable (Sketch on panel)? | Completed - Follower of |
JMW Turner - watercolour shipwreck. | Upon detailed examination, bears traces of false signature and executed on later paper, not commensurate with the artist. |
Picasso: Portrait of Sylvette David in Green Chair | Commercial serigraph and a variant of the original. |
RAOUL DUFY - Le Cirque. Chevaux en piste - Signed |
Completed. |
JWT? Monogram Turner? \ Inscribed Watercolour 1846 Danube Austria | Likely added signature to manner of watercolour. Turner in ill health and not in Austria in 1846. Last continental visits were in 1845 |
Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola (Innocenzo Francucci) 1490 – 1550 Madonna and Child with St Anne, St John the Baptist and St Joseph |
Early 20th century stripped and bonded textured commercial reproduction, mistaken for an oil painting. |
Turner J M W | Completed. |
Picasso painting? | Identified as fragment of commercial fabric design Toro ey Torres |
Florentine School Triptych circa 1438 | Instructed and ongoing, detailed investigation |
Jean-François Millet - Well provenanced Oil Portrait (Fine art industry clients) | Prelim completed. |
Theodore Rousseau | Abeyanced |
H. Vernet oil | Completed questionable UV image of signature indicates likely added |
Edgar Degas drawing | Follower of Degas. |
J M W Turner watercolour castle ruins | Follower of Turner |
Chagall Sculpture | Inoo Not possibly by this artist |
Manet ? Still life with lemon. Oil painting | Completed |
Initialled Piet Mondrian drawing. | Questionable monogram |
Nicolas Regnieri old master oil | A copy by a follower of. |
Dolci ? Madonna ongoing stage 2 | Full investigation ongoing Rome Florence |
August Leu - attrib., - Capri. A gouache landscape | Completed. Not by August Leu. Attributed firmly to La Pira |
Signed. de Lafayette battle scene. | More modern copy bearing a mistakenly interpreted, added signature... D. Lafayette |
Renoir? Pastel nude. |
Either a rather poor fake or simply a misidentified signature. |
Corot landscape oil | Full investigation ongoing. |
Constable Oil - White horse | Over painted lithograph produced circa 1970 +- |
18 C. Well provenanced Thos. Gainsborough (Attrib) Child Portrait. + Several British old master works |
Continuing to stage 2 |
Van Gogh signed oil landscape | Completed. A serious fraud attempt uncovered, supported by a forged letter of authenticity from the VGM and an altered 4 page French forensic analysis report. Police authorities informed. |
Completed. Undefined and questionable Picasso drawing | |
Cortes oil 'La Gare'. | Questionable. Since confirmed by Cortes expert as a fake |
Picasso Sketch of a woman. | Prelim completed. fake copy of half of a print in reverse. |
Constable study | Completed. Modern student copies |
Ivan Aivazovsky oil seascape | Completed. prior misattribution, should read a 'Follower of' |
Marc Chagall | Completed |
'Black Madonna' Vierges Noire (dated 1510) Instructed by European gallery clients | Cancelled |
Jacopo Palma il Giovane. 17C Italian Old Master | Completed. |
Marc Chagall pen and ink drawing signed 1974 | Completed: Fake work bearing falsified signature. Copied froman original drawn in 1950 for Derriere le Mirroir No 27/8 |
Renoir portrait oil | Completed. Copy. |
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich figurative oil | Not Malevich> A work bearing a signature. |
Dufy painting | Overpainted commercial print |
van Gogh landscape oil | Completed. Bears false signature |
Maurice Utrillo oil Monmatre. | Bearing signature. Inoo not Utrillo |
Marc Chagall oil portrait | Prelim completed. Awaiting further instructions |
Picasso - Don Quixhote watercolour | Prelim completed. Awaiting instructions |
Henri Matisse. Still life. Oil | Major investigation pending |
Signed J MW Turner watercolour Naiive school Pig |
Possible sketch book work. Abeyanced. Completed |
Jaques Louis David oil | Later neoclassical composition in the 'manner of' the artist. |
Alexander Borgomazov Russian | Law firm advisory completed |
Pair oils attrib. Breanski | Re attrib. Brianski Jnr. |
Turner J M W British. | Later follower of. A weak copy of Turner's 'Boy of Egremond' |
Sir Peter Lely | Misattributed; Follower of Kneller |
Dufy watercolour | Commercial lithographic print |
Large inventory of Modern masters for legal clients | Cancelled. Unsupportable provenance and questionable history. |
Renoir / Degas pastels | Completed |
Fran. Goya | Not by the hand of Goya |
Quentin Matsys. Old master | Inoo Not attributable to this artist |
Cézanne, Paul. Provençal oil landscape. | Completed. |
J M W Turner large collection of watercolours and sketches | Completed- Industry client. Wrongly attributed. Some sketches post dating Turner's death. Attrib. Wm Turner of Oxford. |
Raoul Dufy - Large watercolour depicting gated entrance to Chateaux with carriages. | Completed. Sadly an early commercial lithograph. Titled; Le Haras du Pin-Normandy. Painted 1936. The original in Baltimore Art Gallery USA |
J M W Turner. A shipwreck scene with lighter and figures | Major investigation scheduled. |
J M W Turner. 8 x 10 an early watercolour landscape? | Completed. Likely a follower of G.Moreland |
J M W Turner. Large water colour. Shipwreck off the southern coast | Inoo. By a later follower of J M W Turner. |
Gauguin watercolour of several Tahitian women | Pending |
Modigliani Portarit for Middle Eastern clients | Completed. Unsound provenance. |
Goya Drawings | Completed. Later works which post date the artist, based on etchings from La Tauromaquia. |
Nomoli Statue - Pomdo stone carvings ~ Sierra Leone | Completed and advised |
Dufy watercolour | Completed. Copy. |
Vincent van Gogh oil | Case dropped |
Henry Moore - Portfolio | Advised |
Dosso Dossi (c. 1490 – 1542) Old Master: Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri | comp. |
Old master oil. Portrait of Doge Barabarigo. Attrib. Tintoretto | Completed. Not attributable to Tintoretto. A later retrospective work |
19 C European oil. | Completed |
John Constable landscape oil. | Inoo: Manner of John Constable but a later work |
Historical silver attribution & investigation | Clients advised |
Juan Gris - 2 important works | Completed. Inoo not the work of this artist. Pigment analysis post dates the artist. |
Pissarro Oil | Advised. Any further investigation rejected by us. |
Vincent van Gogh oil ~ A coastal beach scene | Completed |
J M W Turner drawing. Figures in landscape | Completed. Inoo manner of Turner |
Picasso. | Completed- A reproduction of Picasso’s ‘Deux femmes et enfant.’ Executerd in Paris, winter of 1922. |
Gauguin Tahitian oil | Completed. Copy of 'Two Tahitian Women' bearing a false Gauguin signature. |
German school oil | Completed. Attributed to Maxim Kohler |
Monet Oil. | Prelim. Completed for European clients. Question marks. |
European Religious Icon | Identified as Cretian School circa 1700. Subject; St Mark the Evangelist |
Marc Chagall Watercolour | Completed |
J M W Turner 'Rhine' oil painting | Completed prelim. In our opinion, a follower of J M W Turner |
J M W Turner ~ Venice oil on Brodie and Middleton canvas | Completed / The Canvas dates from four years later than the artist J M W Turner's death. |
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev oil (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Кусто́диев) | Completed/. Not by this artist, bears a false signature |
Pair - Picasso War and Peace images. | In our opinion, later copies |
California Impressionist manner of J. Bond Francisco. |
Prelim Completed. Further research for clients undertaken |
Warhol works | Prelim completed. Probably not legitimate. Closed. |
Italian Old master - Madonna Del Veilo | Full scale investigation Continues in Europe/Italy |
Personal inspection and assessment of the viability of a large collection of important old master and modern master paintings for Far Eastern Clients. | Completed in Asia. A full review of 200+ paintings in oil and water colour |
Picasso - Nesjar - Metal sculpture of muse Jacqueline | Full investigation Completed. Not to be included in new Picasso sculpture catalogue raisonne. |
Wendel ~ Impressionist American oil landscape | Completed prelim/ Inoo Not attributable to Theodore Wendel |
JMW Turner watercolour. Swiss sketch book work | Completed |
Circle / JMW Turner Oil - Shipwreck | Closed |
J M W Turner oil | Completed Not the hand of Turner |
Chalon Oil | Completed. Manner of |
2015 Renoir drawing |
Completed |
John Constable nocturn oil | Completed |
John Constable Oil, Old Mill | Completed. Inoo manner of |
Appel oil | Completed prelim. |
Chagall oil | Suspended prelim. |
J M W Turner seascape oil | Completed/ Inoo manner of. |
YELLOW DOOR SCHOOL OF ART - Frank Spenlove-Spenlove | Completed research for television documentary. |
Roderick O'Connor: Research & Investigation for Eire TV Documentary | Completed |
Old master 18C English school female portrait from Sanderson Miller of Radway Collection. | Completed fully attributed |
Van Gogh | Complete. Bears false signature |
Renoir Two paintings | Completed. |
Mira Schendel | Completed prelim |
Andy Warhol serigraph | Completed prelim |
Picasso - Nesjar - Metal sculpture of Jacqueline | Completed major investigation. Neither Picasso, Nesjar, or Prejger. |
Picasso Nature morte Cerises et fleurs | Likely worthy of further investigation. Pending instruction. |
Paul Gauguin. Her Name Is Vairumati - Oil On Canvas | Inoo A more modern copyists version of the original. |
Picasso tempera | Completed. Copy of an earlier work bearing false signature |
Conrad Marca-Relli- Acryllic frontice piece and abstract painting on paper | Denied attribution by the Archivio Marca-Relli, thus determined by them to be fake bearing signature and inscriptions. |
Hungarian school, 18C Portrait of an old man | Completed: Possibly attributable to the circle of Januarius Zick (German) |
Salvator Rosa (Old Master) | Inoo a later copyists work |
Xu Behong | Cancelled by us |
J M W Turner watercolour (Italian period) | Inoo. Copyists work |
Corot - Oil landscape with figures | Bears added signature |
Charles Daubigny - French Barbizon School | Misattributed |
Abraham A. Manievich (Abram Manevich) Landscape | In our opinion, probably reliable. |
Brancusi marble sculpure | Cancelled by us |
Henry Matisse water colour | Completed Inoo not by the hand of Matisse |
18 C Portrait of a Gentleman architect - Sanderson Miller | Fully attributed to Rev James Wills |
J M W Turner oil landscape | Preliminary study completed: Inoo a follower of JMW Turner |
Picasso Oil: | Completed. |
Van Gogh - Oil | Preliminary. Copy of an original work by a different hand |
Norman Rockwell Water colour landscape | Preliminary study completed. Bears signature |
Saliba Douaihy Acryllic abstract | Most likely authentic. |
Picasso figurative drawings | Preliminary study. Another hand. Bearing signature |
Old master sanguine drawing, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassorferato | Copy by another hand bearing inscription, thus manner of. |
Carravaggio old master oil | Copy by another hand |
JMW Turner an unfinished water colour sketch | Copy based upon engraving by another hand |
Thomas Pritt. 19C English oil landscape | Evaluation and assessment completed. |
Flemish old master oil portrait of a gentleman | Completed |
Francis Bacon oil | Not the hand of Bacon |
Amedeo Modigliani Male Portrait | Preliminary study ongoing |
JM Preston American oil landscape | Completed Inoo a work by another hand |
Alexander Yevgenievich Yakovlev Modernist Russian | Completed |
Wilfredo Iam | Completed |
Old master sketches | Completed. |
JMW Turner Watercolour | Completed. Inoo a copyists work |
Marc Chagall | Completed. Bears signature. A work by another hand |
Chinese scroll | Completed. A commercial replication |
Vassilieff | Completed |
Louis de Schryver oil. Flower seller. | Completed. Copy bearing signature. |
Sir Thomas Lawrence Duke of Wellington portrait oil | Completed Inoo not attributable to this hand |
d'Arcy W Doyle Australian | Complerted sadly, proven a fake. This was created in a group of fake works emanating from the far east which were painted on hardboard not manufactured in the lifetime of the artist. |
Old master oil: St Jerome before the Virgin and child | Completed. Copy in the Manner of Raphael. |
Dufy watercolour | Completed. Confirmed as a fake bearing a false signature |
Leonora Carrington
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Completed. Cancelled by us |
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Explanation of Terms and Abbreviations: Inoo: Is in our opinion Pending; Awaiting final written instruction or contract. No comment after 'Completed:'
Dropped /Cancelled by us. There are in our opinion, extenuating circumstances surrounding the work, its history or the current owner/s / instructees or representatives of the work which is or are not acceptable to us. Including by receipt of misinformation or deception of any kind. Thus we refuse to remain or become involved with the project henceforth.
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Old Masters and other important Paintings and Drawings David TeniersCompleted E. Ruscha Watercolours Completed German School Portrait Completed Paul Gauguin - 2 oil paintings. Investigation Suspended Tizziano - Circle of Titian Completed. Copy Pissarro Completed bears false signature Venician Renaissance School Oil " Prototype Cretan Icons Completed. 17C works Completed Francesco Albani or Albano - Circle PAA COMPLETED Madonna and Child 2 Northern Italian Old masters - Completed Attribted to Marco di Gove (Italian, Late 15th Century) PAA COMPLETED Raol Dufy, Watercolour x 2 PAA COMPLETED School of Pisa Completed Giovanni da Rimini; PAA COMPLETED Follower of Giotto PAA COMPLETED Gothic Franciscan Cross C 1350 PAA COMPLETED Amedeo Modigliani - \Cancelled PAA Corot landscape; PAA COMPLETED Pen and ink sketch & dedication in Geiger Book declined Mondrian - 1933 neo plastic work PAA COMPLETED Constantin Brancusi - Bronze sculpture - Abeyanced Carravaggio Copy Completed PAA. Sir Thomas Lawrence Oil Portrait. Completed PAA. Metz Floral oil Completed PAA. English school oil. Completed PA
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Edgar Degas Bronze - COMPLETED A modern posthumous reproduction
Other Old Master authentication investigations: Claude Lorrain - Landscape oil painting Completed Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato – Madonna Portrait in Oil on canvas Pierre Subleyras - Oil on canvas Completed John Constable - Oil sketch Completed Peter Paul Rubens School of Frans SNYDERS, Completed Jacob Jordaens Pieter van Mo Paul de Vos Theodor van THULDEN Justus von Egmont Abraham van Diepenbeeck Gaspard de CRAYER Jan WILDENS Jacques d'ARTHOIS
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Lady with Tray. Das Schokoladenmädchen | Good Copy after Jean-Étienne Liotard. Artist identified as: Friedrich August von Schlegel |
Constantin Brancusi 3 sculptures | All fake works. All future relations with client severed. |
Cornelius Kreighoff. Canadian. Interior | Cancelled. |
Watercolour. Girl surrounded by water lilies | Completed; English school circa 1920. possibly attrib: Margaret W Tarrant. |
Picasso Signed and dated pencil drawing. Internet offered | Completed. Reversed traced copy of Suite 347 L256 (La sieste: deux femmes) |
J M W Turner : Castle water colour | INOO. Not attributable to JMW Turner. A follower of. |
Matisse Henry, signed pencil drawing | Bears signature. Inoo. Sequentially placed faux work based on the Necklace. |
Constable. Ruins watercolour. Formally attrib and offered by Auctioneers | Invalid attribution |
JMW Turner 4 watercolours. Provenasnce Anderson collection sale | 4 wrongly attributed works. 1 possibly attributable to John Sherrin (1819-1896) |
Picasso Sculpture | Cancelled |
Scottish school 19c | Completed |
Piet Mondrian | Completed. Inoo a modern variant. |
Picasso sequenced, numbered, dated and signed Sketch 1967. | A fake work sequenced into a known group, Nu assis et Flautiste. |
Jacob Maris watercolour | Prelim compl. Possible study for Bluff-bowed Fishing Boat on the Beach at Scheveningen, |
Karel Appel acryllic | Completed: Purchased from on line auction site. No reliable, proven provenance, no supportive testemony and thus will not be assed or recognised by the Appel Foundation |
Renoir 19C Portrait in oils | Not of or by Renoir, an 18C French Carravagioesque paintying & therefore a much, much earlier, relined work. |
Fred Hall - Newlyn School. A male Portrait | Misattributed to his hand. |
American Seascape with Illegible signature | Positively attributed to 'INEZ BEACH'. Female New York marine artist c. 1945. |
Marc Chagall 'Original' Gouache offered on Ebay with COA ! | A Fake work bearing sig.,with no provenance and a totally unqualified COA. |
Picasso oil 1946 | Pending |
Pisarro oil | |
J M W Turner watercolour highland waterfall | Not JMWT- follower of Turner. |
For legal clients: Henri Matisse Études pour la Vierge, Visage. | Clients advised. |
Oil on copper Madonna and Child | Late 17th century anonymous Flemish or German work. |
John Constable signed oil landscape | 19 c. British school work bearing an added false signature and date |
Picasso oil signed and dated | Fake Picasso. |
Cortes oil figurative | Unlike the work of Edouard Cortes (1887-1969) A modernist decorative piece |
Sophie Gengembre Anderson - Honeysuckle an Oil |
Unsigned work in the manner of the artist by a follower. |
British School 3 x 18C portraits | Closed |
Picasso 'Pierrot' | Vintage commercial, mechanically reproduced serigraph. Picasso did not work in this medium |
Alberto Giacometti 2 works | Cancelled by us. |
Picasso Lino cut | Complete. A 1962 commercial variation of 1959 work, bearing false signature + date. |
Picasso painting - oil? | Completed: Commercial reproduction, signed in plate, of; Ronde de la jeunesse Alt; (Ronde au Soleil) (Sun Circle), dated July 2nd 1959. Also renamed in America by Moderrn Classics (serigraph) as; Homage to the Sun, Peace on Earth. Originally designed by Picasso in Cannes, for the 7th "Festival Mondial de la Jeunesse" (cf.World Youth Festival) held in Vienna in August 1959. |
Florentine School Triptych circa 1400 ongoing investigation in Italy | Original 14C Firenze patrons now identified and proven through archival records in Florence. Various original family members now being researched back to 1330 for links of patronage to the important di Cipione studio. |
Edgar Degas Dancers oil | Completed. Old work in style of, bearing false signature from its inception! |
Bouvard Venice back water | Completed follower of bears signature |
Old master oil. Portrait of Venetian Doge Barabarigo. Formerly attrib. Tintoretto | Full investigation completed. A later period retrospective painting of the Doge based on other imagery. |
Pablo Picasso Signed Cubist ooc circa 1920 oil |
Completed. Fake work, bearing fake provenance, false signature and associated stamps |
Paul Gauguin Figures in landscape oil .Signed | Prelim completed. Bears false - added signature, one reacting to UV |
Renoir unsigned Landscape | Misattributed. Inoo an amateur hand |
Whistler ? |
Completed, previously misidentified work and by an amateur hand. |
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Below: A list of completed fine art authentication investigations alongside art fraud investigations: pre 2015 |
PLEASE NOTE: The results of many of our investigations are strictly withheld to comply with laws of privacy and confidentiality. Many are also subject to litigation and may not be mentioned. Only a proportion are listed here. |
Manner of Thos Gainsborough; Portrait of a lady | Preliminary completed |
Paul Gauguin (Monotype) | Preliminary completed |
Old Master Remorse of Judas Iscariot oil |
Preliminary Investigation authentication assessment. Completed. Copy |
Paul Signac Venetian Oil 1908 | Completed preliminary art authentication assessment. Bears signature |
Renoir - Pastel portrait | Completed Initial preliminary assessment. Modern work on paper bearing a fake Renoir signature |
Manner of John Constable - Oil landscape |
Preliminary Investigation authentication assessment. Completed. Pending full authentication investigation |
Norval Morriseau acrylic | Completed pre authentication assessment. Likely a fake bearing false signature. |
Limited edition print 1974 | Completed pre authentication assessment. Bears false signature |
Willem de Poorter oil |
Pending art authentication assessment. |
Paul Signac Oil | Completed pre authentication assessment. Bears fake signature. |
Bernardo Luini Oil (Follower) |
Completed. A later copy of |
National Geographic Documentary film advisory: Pre-Columbian era crystal skulls |
Completed. |
Dutch old master. Oil on panel: Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver | Initial preliminary assessment completed. Copy of later mezzotint. |
Picasso Bronze Sculpture | Assessment completed: A bronzed effect ceramic commercial copy |
Matisse Bronze Sculpture | Preliminary Investigation authentication assessment. Completed. |
Pierre-Jacques Cazes the Elder | Completed. In the manner of |
Dimitri Chiparus; Figurine | Completed. On line auction. A commercial fake presented as authentic. |
Guido Cagnacci attributed. | Pending art authentication assessment. |
Picasso Tête et guitare, Legal Clients: |
Completed preliminary authentication assessment. Awaiting further instructions. Abeyanced |
Matisse watercolour attrib: Marseille Harbour |
Authentication assessment. Misattributed work of art |
Picasso Ebay purchase. Pen and Ink sketch 1906 |
Completed. In our opinion a fake bearing fake signature presented with fabricated provenance and unreliable documentation. |
Pair of Picasso Drawings 1906 |
Completed: Identified as lithographic replicas of Erotic Suite 347 |
Old Master Portrait - Manner of Rembrandt |
Preliminary Investigation
authentication assessment. Completed. |
Sir Joshua Reynolds oil portrait - Lady Hamilton |
Completed preliminary
authentication assessment completed.. |
Picasso Sketch for an altarpiece (Legal Clients) |
Completed preliminary authentication Ongoing: Pending Inspection and detailed Investigation > 2011 |
Picasso (Claimed to be) Nude Study Charcoal and mixed media. |
Completed authentication assessment. Fake |
A Gentleman’s Art Collection: Incl; Johannes Vemeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Gainsborough, Michael Sweerts, Pierre-Auguste Renoir et al |
Pending authentication assessment. Inspection and detailed Investigation > 2011 |
PAIR - Claimed to be Chagall Watercolours (Legal Clients) |
Preliminary authentication assessment completed.deemed illegitimate. Permanently Suspended |
Charles LeBrun Oil on Canvas |
Completed authentication assessment. Missatribution |
Picasso Study |
Pending authentication assessment. Investigation |
Manner of Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp - Landscape with cows & herdsman |
Completed authentication assessment. - 19 century follower of |
Maurice Utrillo Parisian scene |
Preliminary authentication assessment. Investigation underway |
Antoine Dieu - Valentin de Boulogne} |
Authentication assessment. Attribution Investigation completed. |
Picasso oil |
Preliminary authentication assessment.Investigation completed. Abeyanced full investigation 2011 |
Small Van Gogh oil sketch. |
Preliminary authentication assessment. Investigation completed major investigation begun > 2011 |
Picasso Arlequin et femme au collier |
Preliminary authentication assessment. Investigation completed |
Venetian School Landscape |
Preliminary authentication assessment. Investigation completed 19C |
George Romney oil portrait of a lady |
Ongoing authentication investigation > 2011 |
Maud Lewis watercolour (Canadian) |
Preliminary authentication assessment.investigation completed. In ourt opinion bears illegitimate signature |
Alex Dzighrski Snr. Oil Painting landscape |
Completed authentication assessment.: Identified as Commercial print. |
Berhnard Plockhorst 'Guardian Angel' |
Completed authentication assessment.: Commercial posthumous print |
Large
private collection of a private Middle Eastern client: |
Completed attribution and authentication assessment. Client confidentiality precludes further comment. |
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Investigations, preliminary assessments and authentication projects.
Tizziano - Circle of Titian Pissarro " Venician School Oil " Francesco Albani or Albano - Circle PAA COMPLETED Madonna and Child Northern Italian Old masters - Attribted to Marco di Gove (Italian, Late 15th Century) PAA COMPLETED The Madonna and Child Raol Dufy,
Watercolour x 2 PAA COMPLETED School of Pisa Completed Giovanni da Rimini; PAA COMPLETED Follower of Giotto PAA COMPLETED Gothic Franciscan Cross C1350 PAA COMPLETED Amedeo Modigliani - Pending PAA Corot landscape; PAA COMPLETED Pen and ink sketch & dedication iPAA COMPLETED Mondrian - 1933 neo plastic work PAA COMPLETED Constantin Brancusi - Bronze sculpture - Abeyanced Carravaggio Copy Completed PAA. Sir Thomas Lawrence Oil Portrait. Completed PAA. Metz Floral oil Completed PAA. English school oil. Completed PAA.
CURRENT RUSSIAN ARTIST AUTHENTICATION INVESTIGATIONS: Oil paintings : Vladimir
Yevgrafovich Tatlin - Владимир
Евграфович Татлин
Picasso - Early portrait of a Spanish Woman in oils. Abeyanced. 2 separate instructions from legal clients into the authenticity of Picasso Works PAA's COMPLETED Picasso Guenica study PAA COMPLETED
Investigtions Completed Jan/Feb |
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Rene Magritte an Oil painting | Completed: An over painted fake bearing a fake signature |
Rembrandt Painting - Circle of: | Completed: |
Paul Gauguin Tahitian Oil | Completed: |
Francis Bacon Painting | Completed: |
COROT AUTHENTICATION Oil Painting. |
Completed preliminary investigation |
Alexi Harlamoff watercolour | Preliminary investigation completed |
Renoir Oil |
Completed Middle East Investigation illegitimate fake bearing false signature |
Van Gogh Oil |
Completed - Bears added signature |
Paul Gauguin Tahitian watercolour | Completed Far eastern clients |
Willem de Kooning An oil painting | Completed. Bears added signature |
Constantin Brancusi. Marble sculpture |
Completed preliminary investigation Further work has been suspended by us under our Terms and Conditions Paragraph # 1 conflict of interest and non declaration of true fact.. |
Sir Anthony van Dyck
& studio. |
Completed. later work n ot by the artist but in the manner of. |
Paul Gaugin: A major international enquiry and full investigation into legitimacy and authenticity of a previously positively attributed oil painting on behalf of corporate clients | Completed Investigation - Information relating to te specifics or outcome of this case is restricted in accordance with our Privacy policy. |
Paul Gauguin: Watercolor | Completed . Found To Be Illegitimate |
Vincent van Gogh - Oil portrait | Completed: Wrongly attributed |
Sanzio Raphael / Manner of Raphael Old master investigation |
Completed: Misattributed later work |
Willem de Kooning | Completed. Bears false signature |
Edgar Degas: Painting | Completed: Illegitimate fake bearing fake signature |
Edgar Degas: Pastel drawing | Completed: Illegitimate fake bearing fake signature. |
Alexei Jawlensky:
Watercolour
drawing |
Closed |
Edvard von Grutzner - Oil Portrait Monks | Completed: FTB over painted print |
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Samuel Palmer | Completed: |
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3 prints |
Completed: Authenticated |
Paul Gauguin case study | |
Collection of Greek silver coins / Siculo-Punic (Carthaginian) Early Indian Coin 18C Religious medallion Identified and valued.
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LIST OF ART AUTHENTICATION AND ATTRIBUTION INVESTIGATIONS AND OTHER COMPLETED MAJOR ART RESEARCH PROJECTS Follows:
Picasso: { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } Print: (Full art authentication investigation and forensic analysis) Investigation identified the print as a re sized & re printed offset litho image bearing a questionable signature aka: Picasso |
OLD MASTER AUTHENTICATION & ATTRIBUTION INVESTIGATIONS AND OTHER MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS/Conducted on site & in Italy/ Spain and UK
Juan de Valdés Leal:
Monastic portrait { Juan de Valdes Leal [Spanish
Baroque Era Painter, 1622-1690] } (Full old master art authentication
investigation + forensic investigations, analysis and materials
identification / dating ) Painting misattributed and reattributed to,
Cristóbal de León ( Spanish) Full condition Report / Insurance valuation
and written appraisal conducted. True market value
established & insurance documents issued. |
8 x graphic reproductions after: (Full art authentication investigation completed.) Investigation found all prints to be counterfeit offset lithographic prints bearing the forged signature |
German old master oil- Attributed - Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472 -1553 German} (Following full old master art authentication investigation + forensic investigation & and analysis) Painting. identified, authenticated and evaluated Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. |
Picasso: {Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } FLORIDA (Full painting authentication investigation +forensic investigations / Investigation and study completed proved the painting to be a fake. Tette, an Illegitimate work i n watercolor bearing the forged signature of Picasso |
Jean Babtiste GREUZE: { Jean-Baptiste Greuze [ French Rococo Era artist, 1725-1805] } - Painting misattributed, reattributed 'manner of' and evaluated. Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso: { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } A Drawing . Full forensic art authentication investigation completed: Investigation and forensic analysis proved the work of art to be a fake drawing in pen and ink, bearing an Illegitimate forged signature of Picasso |
Jusepe de Ribera: Old master painting attributed to: {Jusepe de Ribera [Spanish-born Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1591-1652] active in Naples from 1616 Variation on St. John the Baptist, an oil on canvas (Full old master art authentication investigation + forensic investigations, analysis and materials identification / lead white and materials dating ) Misattributed - Reattributed to his pupil Francesco Francanzano (1612-1657) |
Joan Miro: {Joan Miró i Ferrà - Spanish (1893 – 1983) Florida A Watercolour - ( Modern art authentication investigation including forensic investigation ) Completed - A fake Painting bearing Illegitimate forged signature. Miro |
Gerrit Dou: {Gerrit Dou - Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1675] } Previously attributed - oil painting: Full old master art authentication investigation completed. Painting Identified and attributed to his pupil; Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) and valued for insurance purposes. |
Claude Monet: { Oscar-Claude Monet - French - 1840-1926} Impressionist An oil painting - ( Full art authentication investigation + forensic investigation and analysis ) Completed - A fake painting, bearing Illegitimate forged signature, Monet. |
Durer: Relief: {Albrecht Durer [German Northern Renaissance Painter and Engraver, 1471-1528] Authentication investigation conducted. Identified as a commercial reproduction and re evaluated |
Picasso: { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } Art authentication investigation completed: Fake Drawing in ball point pen. Illegitimate drawing bearing a forged signature, Picasso |
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi: Attributed: { Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - 1571 – 1610) Italian } Oil painting on canvas: Full old master art authentication investigation completed. Re attributed to Giovanni Baglione |
Renoir: {Pierre-Auguste Renoir French (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919)} A figurative oil painting on card. Full art authentication investigation completed. Positively attributed and supported. Wildenstein. Full condition report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. True market value established & insurance documents issued. |
Giovanni Battista Salvi: called SALVI dit il SASSOFERRATO. Madonna and child: (Full old master art authentication investigation completed.) Misattributed- Painting reattributed Manner of SASSOFERRATO and Evaluated Full condition report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. Insurance documentation issued. |
T F Goodall: Oil painting {Thomas Frederick Goodall 1822-1904 British} (Painting authentication investigation and research) Completed - painting Authenticated and Evaluated Report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. True market value established & insurance documents issued. |
Peter Paul Rubens: attrib. {Peter Paul Rubens Flemish [Baroque Era artist, 1577-1640] A study of an old mans head. Oil on panel. (Full old master art authentication investigation completed.) Found to be misattributed - Painting reattributed to circle of Antony Van Dijck and Valued / Evaluated |
Hermanus Van Koekkoek Jnr: - Painting - authentication Completed - Winter landscape: Authenticated Renoir: COMPLETED / - Painting: Process of Authentication denied by Wildenstein |
Jacques-Louis David: {Jacques-Louis David -French - ( 1748 – 1825)} (Full old master painting authentication investigation) Completed: Painting misattributed, reattributed in the manner of, -painting bears a false signature Jaques David. Painting reattributed and evaluated |
Paul Emile Pissarro: {Paul Emile Pissarro (French, 1884-1972)} Pastel landscape on paper. (Full painting authentication investigation undertaken ) Completed: Found to be a fake pastel drawing bearing an Illegitimate forged signature. P Pissarro |
Lucas Cranach the Elder: {CRANACH, Lucas (elder) ( 1472-1553) German Alternate Names: CRANACH, Lucas I; CRANACH, Lukas (elder) Oil Portrait of John the Steadfast on canvas. Full old master art authentication investigation conducted and forensic investigation completed.Pigment analysis and carbon 14 dating. Attributed to a later follower of Lucas Cranach. Evaluated |
Honore Daumier: {Honoré Daumier French - 1808 -1879 } Art authentication investigation + forensic investigation completed - 2 Fake drawings both bearing the Illegitimate, forged signature of Honore Daumier - H Daumier |
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi: Attributed: { Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio- 1571 – 1610) Italian } Oil painting on canvas: Art authentication investigation conducted. Researched / identified as a 19C - painting copy. Flemish school: - 17C. Still life of flowers and fruit ( Oil Painting) Old master art attribution and authentication investigation conducted. Not attributable. Painting Evaluated |
F. M. Evans:.- {Frederick M Evans - British, exhibited - 1888- 1916) } Newlyn School of painting. St Ives fisherman: Authenticated and Evaluated. True market value established & insurance documents issued. |
A . DURER: Woodblock {Albrecht Durer [German Northern Renaissance Painter and Engraver, 1471-1528] Old master print authentication investigation conducted Woodblock print. Researched / identified later posthumous re strike True market value established & insurance documents issued. |
Maillol: Torso {Aristide Maillol [French Art Nouveau / Nabi Sculptor, 1861-1944]} Sculpture authentication investigation completed: Attributed to Richard Guino, (French, 1890-1973) a pupil of Maillol) Full report issued. |
Allessandro Magnasco: - Old master landscape oil painting {attributed to Magnasco, Allessandro , 1667–1749, known as il Lissandrino - Italian painter} Full old master art authentication investigation conducted and forensic investigation completed . Provenance researched / identified Misattributed . attributed to Carlo Antonio Tavella: (1668 - 1738) valued & evaluated. |
Samuel Palmer | Completed: |
Arthur E Beaumont: (Arthur Edwaine Beaumont. American 1890-1978) USS Arizona - Oil Painting Researched / identified, evaluated. |
Black Madonna icon: Researched - Evaluated |
Thomas Sydney Cooper: (Attrib.) {Thomas Sydney Cooper RA (1803-1902) British} A watercolour drawing. Full art authentication investigation completed. Researched and identified as misattributed. Attributed to Circle of Thomas Sydney Cooper and Evaluated. |
A. Durer: 2 Print {Albrecht Durer [German Northern Renaissance Painter and Engraver, 1471-1528] Old master print authentication investigation conducted: Completed, legitimate posthumous re strike. Condition report + true market value established & insurance documents issued. |
Constable: - {John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) English artist} Landscape oil painting on wooden panel bearing a signature 'J Constable.' (Full art authentication investigation completed.) Painting misattributed . Forensic study indicates that the painting bears the false signature of John Constable which has been applied by another hand. Painting reattributed, 'in the manner of John Constable' or 'follower of John Constable' and evaluated. |
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: - Engraving { Giovanni Battista Piranesi [Italian Neoclassical Engraver, 1720-1778] Old master print investigation into authenticity COMPLETED Found to be 19C reproduction, with counterfeit signature. Nicholas Poussin: Old master drawing. Attrib: {Nicolas Poussin [French Baroque Era Artist 1594-1665] } Full old master drawing authentication investigation showed that the work was a 19C fake with false signature. N Pouissin |
XU BEIHONG: (1895-1953) Chinese watercolor- painting identified and evaluated. Authentication investigation completed. M.E. Dignam - Autumn scene in Canada. Acryllic painting = valued Picasso: Drawing on paper- { Attrib: Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } (Full art authentication investigation completed } Identified as a fake bearing a fake signature, Picasso . Date of paper stock and inscribed date of execution differ. |
School of Rembrandt: -
An old master
portrait - Attribution investigation, research and old master authentication
enquiries lead the painting to be attributed to Dirck van den Bergen: Old Master oil painting - {Dirck van den Bergen. Dutch (b Haarlem, 1645; d Haarlem, 1700). Old master art authentication investigations completed. Authenticated and attributed |
Julius Olsson: - {Attributed- Julius Olsson (British, 1864-1942) Cornish seascape oil painting} Evaluated and insurance documents issued. |
Old Master
School: Manner of Rembrandt --
Painting attribution investigation Completed. Sustained as manner of. |
Marc Chagall: {Attrib- Marc Chagall. [Russian- French Artist 1887-1985] Signed Print: La Bible II - ( La Bible - Paradis II) Evaluated, Authentication investigation completed; A lithograph from Marc Chagall Illustrations for the Bible II 1960 by MARC CHAGALL - Dessins pour la Bible. Verve Volume X, Numbers 37/38. But bearing a fake signature by another hand. Chagall E.Conyers Barker: - Canadian oil Painting. Authentication investigation completed/ Authenticated and Evaluated. Koekkoek: {Barend Cornelis KOEKKOEK, 1803-1862) Dutch} - oil Painting 1850, Traveller and herdsman in mountainous landscape. Signed Koekkoek. Full art authentication investigation completed; Provenance researched / painting identified signature authenticated and the work of art valued for insurance. |
Thomas Gainsborough: A Landscape- Painting. Authentication assessment complete. Likely a fake / bearing counterfeit signature Thos. Gainsborough Nicholaas Berchem: Old Master Painting attributed: - {Nicholaas Berchem (also known as Nicolaes or Claes Berchem/ Dutch} Full old master art authentication investigation & research showed that this work of art was misattributed and should be attributed in the manner of. Lucas van Leyden: . After/ Copperplate etching - print { Lucas van Leyden (Leiden, 1494 – 1533 in Leiden), also called Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz. Dutch.} Return of the prodigal son. Authenticated following old master print investigation and research. Jan van Goyen: {Jan van Goyen , Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1596-1656} Oil painting : Dordrecht with shipping. C 1640. old master Old master painting authentication and attribution investigations completed. Attribution sound. |
Thomas Baker of Leamington: - {Thomas Baker of Leamington (1809 - 1864) British artist} Oil on Board. A Warwickshire landscape, possibly Barford. Signed Thomas Baker.. label verso, signed and inscribed Thomas Baker 'P a r f_ rd.' Full art authentication investigation undertaken and completed; Painting provenance researched. The oil landscape authenticated and valued. Full condition report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. Insurance documentation issued. |
Raffaello Santi: Attributed to {Raffaello da Urbino or Rafael Sanzio da Urbino. Italian 1483-1520} Head of St. Jerome C 1500 - Oil on panel. Old master art authentication investigation and research, forensic analysis and dating indicate execution at a later date. Attribution should therefore be: Follower of Raffaello Santi: Giotto: Oil on Panel. St Francis Attrib: {Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267–January 8, 1337- Italian} Reattributed after old master art authentication and attribution investigation to,the Circle of Giotto, possibly Taddeo GADDI. |
Sorel Etrog: { Sorel ETROG Romanian-born Canadian Sculptor, born in 1933] } Mother and child - Sculpture authentication investigation conducted. Sculpture Authenticated and Evaluated. Insurance documents issued. |
Simone Peterzano: The Holy family & Adorazione dei Magi attributed to (Simone Peterzano, Italian, born circa 1540-died after 1596) Panels. Full old master attribution report conducted. |
Norval Morrisseau: -Canadian Ojibwe painter,- Painting Evaluated Norval Morrisseau:-Canadian
Ojibwe painter. Authentication investigation undertaken. 3 acrylic
paintings authenticated / valued. |
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: also called Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo Venetian painter - Italian. Putti panels; O ld master authentication investigation indicates that the works are more likely by a later follower of. Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. Insurance documentation was issued. |
Andrew Sherman: Painting Evaluated George Loftus Noyes: - { Attributed to George Loftus Noyes - Floral painting in oils on canvas, (Canadian/American, 1864-1954) } Art authentication investigation conducted / Painting Evaluated and proven authentic. Helene Besnard-Giraudias attrib: {Hélène V. BESNARD-GIRAUDIAS (French, 1906) }·Evaluation. Insurance documentation issued. Louis Galliac: - { Attributed to Louis Galliac (French, 1849-1934) art authentication investigation conducted and attribution founded. Painting valued. |
Santi di Tito: Portrait
Caterina de' Medici. attrib: (Santi di Tito - 1536 - 1602 or
1603 Italian) Old master art
authentication enquiries and subsequent investigation into its
authenticity and attribution of the painting confirm that the work is a
modern copy of the painting held in the Uffizzi, Galleria degli Uffizi
(Palazzo degli Uffizi) Piazzale degli Uffizi. Ritratto di Caterina de'
Medici regina di Francia by Santi
di Tito.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Print after. Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, better known in English as Titian. Misattributed painting: Old master attribution investigation suspended. |
Japanese Art: Utigawa school watercolour painting. Identified and Evaluated John Constable: - {John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) English artist} watercolor painting. Misattributed - Identified as a modern fake and evaluated following art authentication and forensic investigations. A Y Jackson: - {Alexander Young Jackson 1882-1974- Canadian artist. Group of Seven.} Oil on board. Art authentication investigation conducted. Painting authenticated and valued. Insurance documents issued. Franz Johnston: {Canadian artist. Group of Seven.} Evaluated Pablo Picasso: 2 printed works of art { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } Prints: ( Full print art authentication investigation conducted} Valued & authenticated. |
Maso da San Friano: Oil
painting attributed to {Maso da San Friano, real name -Tomaso D'Antonio
Manzuoli. - born Florence, 4 Nov 1531; died Florence, 2 Oct
1571 - Italian painter and artist} Oil on poplar panel. The
Holy family with St John the Baptist. Old
master attrribution and authentication investigation
indicated the likely hand is probably pupil of: ie: Alessandro Fei
(1543 - 1592)
Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino: 2 works from the Studio of Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino called IL CAVALIER D'ARPINO (Arpino 1568 - Rome 1640 Italian) Probably studies for the ceiling in the Cappella Olgiati, Santa Prassede, Rome. oFull, od master rt authentication investigation, research and attribution investigations indicate that these in all likelyhood the work of his studio assistant and brother Bernardino |
Pierre Auguste Renoir: {Pierre-Auguste Renoir - French (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919)} A landscape oil painting on card. Full art authentication investigation undertaken and completed. Fake painting - proven Illegitimate with added forged signature by another hand aka: Renoir Marc Chagall: {Attrib- Marc Chagall. [Russian- French Artist 1887-1985] Signed Chagall print authentication investigation and assessment: Print Identified, authenticated and evaluated. Full condition report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. Insurance documentation issued. Marc Chagall: 2 prints: {Attrib- after Marc Chagall. [Russian- French Artist 1887-1985] Signed Chagall prints authentication investigation and assessment: Found to be illegitimate offset lithographs bearing fake signatures: Chagall. Marc Chagall: 2 paintings: {Attrib- after Marc Chagall. [Russian- French Artist 1887-1985] Full art authentication investigation completed. Forensic identification of paper and handwriting / signature analysis conducted. Both proven to be fake works of art with fake signatures. Chagall. Henri Matisse: Print {Henri Matisse [French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954] } Print authentication investigation conducted. Evaluated and valued. Illegitimate reproduction bearing a fake signature. 5 prints Identified as fakes and re evaluated as unlicensed decorative prints bearing fake signature. |
Raphael or Raffaello also called Raffaello Sanzio Bernardo Vecchietti. Studio of: Jacopo Tintoretto, (Jacopo Robusti). After: Copy Matteo Rossell: attributed to {Matteo Rosselli (Italian, 1578–1650)} 2 oil paintings on canvas: Saint John the Baptist / St Matthew. Matteo Rossell: attributed to {Matteo Rosselli (Italian, 1578–1650)} Study for Venere e Adone Full old master attribution and authentication investigation and enquiry conducted. Giovanni Francesco Caro: Old master Drawing.ollowing investigation, attributed to: Giovanni Francesco Caroto 1555/1558) Italian } Portrait of a Benedictine monk Francesco Solimena: Attributed to: {Francesco Solimena - Italian Baroque Artist 1657-1747} Chalk (red) on paper drawing of a kneeling saint. Attributed following old master research and investigation into authenticity Federico Zuccaro Niccolo Boldrini: Old master Engraver {Niccolo Boldrini (Italian, 1510- 1566) }(after Titian) Venus and Cupid in the Woods. Woodcut, 1566 Authenticated. Cherubino Alberti: Old master engraver {Alberti Cherubino, also called Borghegiano; 1553 -1615) Italian.} Print after Caravaggio, The Creation; Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise. Engraving - Authenticated. Full condition report + Insurance valuation and written appraisal conducted. Insurance documentation issued. Giovani Jacopo Caraglio Pier Francesco Mola: {Italian 1612-1666} - Old master caricature studies / pen and ink on brown paper. Authenticated. Jan Baptist de Wael (Jan Baptiste de Wael (the Younger) Flemish,1632-1669) Etcher: St Jerome.Old master print. Authenticated |
Dutch School: Unsigned oil painting of Dordrecht harbour with shipping valued. Auguste Renoir:- Authentication assessment and investigation. A fake figurative oil painting on card, Illegitimate work of art with forged signature of Renoir Pierre Auguste Renoir: {Pierre-Auguste Renoir - French (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919)} A landscape drawing possibly Fontainebleu - Full art authentication investigation completed. Work authenticated, and valued. Canadian School:- Acryllic Painting Manitoba grain silos, Evaluated. Mary Ella Dignam: - Dutch genre scene of an interior. Painting evaluated John James Donaghy: Print: The Illustrious Sons of Ireland. Print Researched Evaluated and valued. Jacob Lawrence: - {Jacob Lawrence [African-American - Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1917-2000] } Oil Painting. Full art authentication investigation: COMPLETED - An Illegitimate fake work with added forged signature of Jacob Lawrence Ricardo Verdugo Landi (1871 - 1930) Spanish Oilon canvas Luminist painting. Anton Mauve: - {Anton Mauve [Dutch Painter, 1838-1888] } An oil painting on panel. Cappriccio view of Dordrecht. The harbour and city. Full art authentication assessment & authentication investigation conducted. Fake painting bearing Illegitimate forged signature - Anton Mauve - bottom left.. Arthur Lismer: - Canadian Artist: Full art authentication investigation conducted including forensic study and forensic signature analysis. proven to be a fake painting. An Illegitimate work bearing forged signature . A Lismer 32. George Romney: - {George Romney (1734-1802), British } Oil painting. Portrait of a gentleman. Full art authentication investigation conducted / COMPLETED Misattributed. Reattributed to a Follower of George Romney. Picasso: Oil painting investigation. Suspended pending police prosecution of owner. Portrait of Dora Maar, 1940 Picasso: / 3 prints . La toilette de la mere 1905, Au Cirque, Harlequin, 1966 Authentication assessments and authentication investigation now COMPLETE . Modern facsimile offset litho variants each bearing a fake Picasso signature Robert Thornton: 19C.British - watercolour painting researched and evaluated Raoul Dufy: - 2 watercolor drawings signed : {Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) French fauvist painter - Authentication investigation suspended pending police prosecution of owner. Fakes with fake signature of Dufy. Maximilien Luce: An oil painting attributed to { Maximillian Luce [French Pointillist Artist, 1858-1941] } Art Authentication investigation completed: Found to be counterfeit work bearing a fake signature. ie; M Luce Maximilien Luce:
2 Oil paintings attributed to { Maximillian Luce
[French Pointillist Artist, 1858-1941] } landscape with river &
industrial landscape. Art authentication investigation completed:
Counterfeit works bearing fake signatures. M
Luce Franklin Carmichael: (Canadian) Group of Seven. landscape in acryllic. Art authentication enquiries lead to the belief that the work was illegitimate. L.S.Lowry: - {Laurence Stephen Lowry - British } oil on artists board> industrial landscape. Full art authentication investigation - Complete - Counterfeit. A fake oil painting bearing an illegitimate forged signature. L.S Lowry Bouvard Antoine: - {BOUVARD, Antoine ( 1870-1956) French} Complete-Venecian Canal and Grand Canal Venice. Authentication investigation proves Works to be authentic. Attributed to Antoine bouvard.Insurance documents issued. Bouvard C: {BOUVARD, Colette ( 19th C) French} Gondolier in Venice ( Oil Painting) Full art authentication investigation - Completed. Work and signature authenticated. Valued and sold on behalf of client. Reginald Whale: - {Robert Reginald Whale (Canadian, 1805-1887) } Oil Painting. A Canadian Landscape. Authentication investigations completed - Painting Authenticated signature verified as authentic. Reginald Whale: - {Robert Reginald Whale (Canadian, 1805-1887) } Oil Painting. British Landscape with castle ruins. Painting Authenticated. Valued. Franz Johnston: - Canadian Paintings 4 works. Authenticated following full art authentication investigations. 2 winter and 2 autumn landscapes. Canadian Pioneer Folk Art - Paintings valued for insurance purposes. Hornyansky:- { Nicholas HORNYANSKY (b 1896 - d 1965) Canadian } Aquatint Prints authentication investigation. Evaluated, authenticated large collection. Edgar Degas: Pastel Drawing attrib: { Edgar Degas French Realist / Impressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1834-1917) Full authentication assessment and authentication investigation including forensic work in identifying paper stock proved that the work was a fake drawing based upon the ballet series.Counterfeit signature, aka: Degas. William Powell Frith: attrib: - {William Powell Frith English painter, 1819-1909] Oil painting evaluated and valued. Aristocratic gathering. E.Conyers Barker:- Canadian acryllic, painting. Authenticated and valued Toulouse Lautrec: Attrib: Drawing - {Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec- Monfa- French} Art authentication investigation lead to the work being authenticated. Amedeo Modigliani: - Painting Jeunne femme attributed to {Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920- Italian) Full investigation into the authenticity of this work is COMPLETED. Found to be a counterfeit painting on canvas, bearing a fake signature. Modigliani Pablo Picasso: - Painting Provenance Investigation Peintre et modele Monogramist P.M :. Painting Believed to be Piet Mondriaan - Misattributed/Copy Pablo Picasso: - Watercolour L'homme au beret, attributed to { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } (Full art authentication investigation conducted} Painting a commercial copy Pablo Picasso: - Drawing Tette Homme { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } Investigation of legitimacy COMPLETED / Provenance investigation and art authentication investigations assured authenticity. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected. True market value established. Insurance documentation issued. Sir Anthony Van Dyck: - Oil Painting - Suspended art authentication investigation Barend Cornelis Koekkoek: - {Barend Cornelis KOEKKOEK, ( 1803-1862) Dutch} Painting investigation into authenticity complete - Counterfeit. painting by another hand with removed signature. Work bears fake signature KoekKoek Raoul Dufy: - Painting la Plage: investigation COMPLETED Found to be Counterfeit John Hayes: - Painting COMPLETED Authenticated fishing boats in a swell. Louis Icart: - Smoke - fumee Print {Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950) COMPLETED Authenticated and valued for insurance purposeds Piet Mondriaan: - Painting attrib { Piet Mondrian Dutch Neo-Plasticist Painter, 1872-1944} COMPLETED authentication investigation - Facimile of Composition with Red 1 Picasso: attributed to { Pablo Picasso - Spanish 1881-1973 } (Full art authentication investigation into the drawing in pen and ink drawing of Dora Maar, conducted} Fake Pen & ink drawing - found to be counterfeit bearing a fake signature, Picasso Pierre Auguste Renoir: - A drawing of a young girl attributed to {Pierre-Auguste Renoir - French (1841– 1919)} - Full art authentication investigation proved the drawing to be a modern fake bearing a false signature. Renoir E.Conyers Barker: - Acryllic Painting. canadian fall landscape Authenticated and Evaluated Jacob Maris: - Dutch - Painting authentication investigation COMPLETED Found to be counterfeit painting of Amsterdam bearing fake signature, J. Maris Gustave Courbet - A winter oil landscape on panel - Painting investigation and authentication research suspended Piet Mondriaan: - Dutch- Composition 2. Painting Found to be Fake / Counterfeit. Henri Matisse: - Fake Painting COMPLETED Found to be Counterfeit Pablo Picasso; - Painting COMPLETED Modern commercial copy. Old Guitarist Manuel Guimbarda [Manuel De Guimbarda (Cuban, 1833-1907)] Watercolor. Authentication investigation completed. the painting bears a false signature. Cezanne:- attributed to: {Paul Cezanne [French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1839-1906] Painting authentication enquiries and forensic investigation proved the painting to be a modern fake bearing a fake signature> Cezanne Raoul Dufy: Watercolour painting attributed to {Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) French, Fauvist painter } - Authentication investigation and research proved the work on paper to be a fake painting. Found to be Counterfeit Baie des anges, Nice . Watercolor bearing falke signature, DUFY. Picasso; - Pencil drawing COMPLETED, Tette femme authentication investigation: Found to be Counterfeit / Drawing in pencil bears a fake signature Picasso J.E.H.MacDonald; - Canadian. Painting investigation into authenticity Completed . Work authenticated. Nova Scotia landscape Franz Kline:- Contemporary painting on canvas signed {Franz Kline [American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1910-1962] Full art authentication investigation and forensic study of signature and inscription on canvas prove the work is a fake with added counterfeit signature in oil paint. ie: Franz Kline. Pablo Ruez Picasso: - Nature morte a la guitare Oil Painting Authentication study completed . Fake / Counterfeit work bearing fake Picasso signature Renoir: - Oil Painting investigation of authenticity COMPLETED Modern copy. In the meadow. bears fake signature. Renoir. Phillip J.Ouless:
- {Philip
J. Ouless
· Philip John Ouless (British,
1817-1885) Completed
seascape authentication investigation of a painting of the Canadian
ship 'Father Mattheu completed> Authenticated- valued
for insurance purposes. Pierre Struys: {Pieter (Pierre) Struys (Dutch, 1914)} Painting Misattributed, Reattributed manner of and Evaluated G. CARNEVALE: (Italian 19 C.) Marble sculpture. Authenticated and Evaluated. 17C Italian Old Master: - Painting C 1700 - Modern fake; investigation ceased. Riccardo Galli:- {Italian Sculptor 1839} Marble Bust: Completed authentication enquiry. . Armfield George:
- {GEORGE ARMFIELD (SMITH) Theodore Rousseau: - Oil landscape painting on canvas attributed to { Theodore Rousseau [French Barbizon School artist , 1812-1867] } Fake Barbizon landscape - Oil Painting authentication investigation completed. Counterfeit work bearing a fake signature. Th Rousseau Watercolour signed A. Hitler.
Completed artwork
authentication investigation. A fake work bearing a false signature. Schamberg. Baylinson, Ferruzzi . Art Valuations Completed Henri Edmond Cross: Watercolor attributed to {Henri Edmond Cross - French, 1856-1910) His garden in the south of France. Authentication investigation completed, identified as a fake bearing fake monogram. Picasso: Litho of etching. Illegitimate reproduction bearing fake signature Picasso: 5 signed consecutive sketchbook drawings. Interiors with two women. Completed art authentication investigations and forensic analysis of the signatures, dates and Roman numerals indicate all the drawings are modern fakes bearing fake signatures and dates. Including the fake signature of Pablo Picasso Theodore Rousseau: French Oil Painting. A Barbizon
Landscape, Foret Fontainebleu. Authentication investigation into
legitimacy completed. Painting bears false signature. An illegitimate
copy bearing a fake signature, Th Rousseau Farkas Lorinc Csallóközi:. Hungarian. 9 landscape and interior oil paintings researched and investigated. Completed - Authenticated. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected. Insurance documentation issued. Vincent van Gogh: 2 fake oils on canavas. Floral works. Iris' Tulips . Investigation completed, works bear false signatures. John Alexander Harington Bird. (British 1846-1936) Valuation. Vincent; Believed to be a drawing. {VincentWillem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)} A lithograph of Peasants. Italian school: C1900 Pr. oils Valuation assessment completed. Armfield George:
- Attributed.to {George Armfield Smith 1808-1893 - British} Oil Armfield George: Attrib: Oil on Canvas, Terriers {George Armfield Smith 1808-1893 - British} Art attribution investigation carried our and enquiry indicates that this is a misattribution and the more likely attribution should be to Edward Armfield. Kirchner E Ludwig: - { Ernst Ludwig Kirchner [German Painter and Sculptor, 1880-1938} Woodblock print. Frau Professor Goldstein, Date: 1916 Full art / print authentication investigation completed. Authenticated. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued., sold for client. 16 Limited edition prints. Investigation of authenticity complete. Found to be counterfeit inaccurately sized prints on modern paper stock, each bearing a fake signatur. e Joan Miro: 2 Fake Prints Completed authenticity investigation. Both found to be counterfeit both bearing false, added signatures by another hand. Miro Pablo Picasso 5 prints Complete. Illegitimate bearing questionable signatures. Francoise Gilot, Le Picador II, Tette homme, Don Quixote, La Petite Corrida. Audubon: Prints after {John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)} Including : original Audubon Royal Octavo Bird Prints. AKA. Red-tailed Buzzard, Broad-winged Buzzard, Iceland or Gyr Falcon, Cooper's Hawk, Barn Owl, Whip-poor-will, Chuck-Wills Widow, Kentucky Flycatching Warbler,Common Blue Bird, Blackburnian Wood Warbler Print authentication investigation and research conducted and completed. Prints authenticated. Condition reports, insurance valuation and written appraisal effected. Insurance documentation issued. Audubon Chromolithographs- Birds of America. Prints investigation completed. Joan Miro: After / Prints x3. Le chien bleu, La seance de musique, Oiseau entre deux astres. Found to be Counterfeit repros bearing questionable signatures following authentication and signature identification investigations. Signed MIRO 25 lithographs on Arches. Print series contemporary re printed images bearing questionable signatures. Likely fakes: 2 prints after. Found to be a re sized and
re printed images following forensic investigation and examination,
both bearing a questionable signatures. Insurance documentation issued. Amos Cassioli: - 'Paolo and Francesca' better known as: 'The Kiss' attributed {Amos Cassioli (Italian, 1832-1891)} full art authentication enquiries, investigation and research including forensic study & analysis showed this work of art to be a fake oil painting. Bearing a fake signature. Amos Cassiolli Sir Arthur Elsley: - Genre painting. This Little Piggy: attrib: {Arthur John Elsley (1860-1952) British } Completed art authentication investigations of the painting proved the work of art to be legitimate and proven authentic / authenticated Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Sir Alfred Munnings: - Portrait painting attrib: {Sir Alfred James Munnings, PRA, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) British } Art authentication procedures lead to the work of art being proven as misattributed. Follower of Munnings. Attibuted to Weatherby: Portrait of a lady with a spaniel dog: Attrib: { WEATHERBY, Richard ( fl.1919-1940) British} Art authentication investigations find positive attribution supported. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. E.Conyers Barker: Canadian: landscape Authenticated and Evaluated E.Conyers Barker Ontario landscape: Acryllic. Authenticated and Evaluated Alexander Loemans - Landscape Authentication investigation complete Authenticated. River valley with indian encampment. Signed A Loemans Canadian 'Group of Seven': - Painting- Completed authentication / attribution enquiry: Attrib. A.Y Jackson - Algonquin landscape in winter. F.H.Varley: - Watercolour - Water colour painting Complete Authenticated Franz Johnston: - Winterscape oil. Investigation complete: Authenticated A. Lismer - Fake Landscape.- Painting> Authentication Investigation complete. Found to be counterfeit work based upon Winter Horse and Sleigh 1918: oil on canvas laid down on board. Bears fake signature, A Lismer Bezin: * A Sculpture - Completed investigation> sculpture authenticated, values and Insurance documentation issued. Picasso: - Investigation of authenticity into a wash and ink drawing of a woman in a hat: COMPLETED Fake / Found to be counterfeit bearing fake Picasso signature Theodore Rousseau: - A Drawing. attrib {Theodore Rousseau [French Barbizon School artist , 1812-1867] } Completed authentication enquiries and subsequent investigation lead to the drawing of a bridge in a forest being authenticated. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. Vincent van Gogh: - Oil painting of Iris' attrib: {Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)} Full oil painting authentication investigation proved the work to be a further fake bearing the faux / fake or added signature: Vincent Vincent van Gogh: - Oil painting of vase of flowers on canavas: Attrib: {Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)} Full oil painting authentication and forensic investigation proved the work to be another fake bearing a faux / fake or the added signature Vincent. Gustave Courbet: - A fake oil portrait - A Painting of a sculptor. Completed authentication investigation proved the work to be counterfeit bearing a fake signature. G Courbet Joseph Mallord William Turner: Fake signed oil landscape - Painting investigation Completed. Art authentication procedures undertaken find the work to be modern counterfeit with fake signature: JMW Turner Pablo Picasso: Fake watercolor painting. Completed investigation found the painting to be counterfeit with fake Picasso signature . Dove and Flowers Cesare Lapini :- Sculpture. Bust of a woman. {Cesare Lapini (Italian 1848-1893)} Sculpture authentication enquiry proves the work of art to be a fake Marble Bust . A Counterfiet 19C reproduction being a forged signature. C Lapini Edgar Degas: - An Autumnal Landscape - Pastel painting investigation completed> Attrib. Edgar Degas - Supported; Insurance report and valuation and written appraisal effected. Insurance documentation issued. Pablo Picasso: Fake Drawing Tette femme. 1952. investigation Completed. Found to be counterfeit bearing a fake Picasso signature. paper stock identification showed paper manufactured in 1980's Vincent van Gogh: - Watercolour attrib: {VincentWillem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)} Bridge as Asniers. Full painting authentication investigation proved the work to be a fake watercolor - bearing faux/ fake signature Vincent Vincent van Gogh: - Oil painting of old mill. attrib: {Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)} Full oil painting authentication investigation proved the work to be a fake bearing the faux / fake added signature Vincent . Joan Miro: #7 - prints after {Joan Miró i Ferrà - Spanish (1893 – 1983) ( Print authentication investigation including forensic investigation of paper stock) Completed - All bearing questionable signatures. Likely all fake and repro. Print: Complete Found to be a re printed lithographic image bearing a questionable signature. A Hitler: { Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) Austrian } A watercolour painting, woodland scene (Art authentication investigation) Completed Authenticated and Evaluated
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17C DutchSchool: - Oil Painting successfully attributed following old master art authentication attribution investigation to; Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael An imaginary landscape with castle at sunset. Full condition report + insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. John Verelst :- {John Vereist (fl. 1698-1734). Dutch } Old master oil painting of a gentleman in a wig and top coat. COMPLETED Authenticated following full old master art authentication procedures and investigation including forensics, pigment analysis and dating. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. Herman van der Myn: - oil painting attributed to Herman van der Myn (Dutch,1684-died circa 1741) Old master painting authentication investigation completed: Painting authenticated Reynolds: - {Sir Joshua Reynolds:English Rococo Era Painter,1723-1792} Full old master art authentication investigation of an oil portrait of a gentleman indicates fake signature added to painting / Complete Nicolaes Berchem, Manner of (Berchem Nicolaes 1620-1683- Dutch) Old master authentication investigation of an oil painting. Suspended Franz Hochecker: 1730-1782 (German) pastoral landscapes. Authenticated Cherubino Pata: (French, 1819-1877) manner of Courbet. oil on canvas. Attrib F Van Severdonck:- Frans van Severdonck (Belgian) 1809-1889 an oil painting on wooden panel, Ewe, ram and lamb, in pastoral landscape with ducks. Authentication investigation and research completed. Authenticated. Bloemaert: ( Abraham Bloemaert,Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht - Dutch) An old master landscape with vegetables. Oil on panel. Old master authentication investigation completed.Unsubstantiated attribution. Jost Amman: Attrib/ [Jost Amman [German Engraver, ca.1539-1591] Bildnis des Justin Gobler, 1564, Old master authentication investigation. Roelant Roghman. Attrib:> (Roelant Roghman (Dutch, 1627-1692) Landscape oil with travellers/ Old master authentication procedures suspended. Dancker Danckerts: Dancker Danckerts (1633 - 1666). Old master engraving after Nicolaes Berchem. Authenticated. R Landi: {Ricardo Verdugo Landi (1871 - 1930) Spanish } PAISAJE; Oil on canvas Old master attribution investigation into authenticity completed. Authenticated. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. Marten van Heemskerk: Attrib {Heemskerck, Marten van. 1498, 1574} Dutch Old master portrait of a noble lady.old amster attribution investigation Pierre Parrocel: attrib {Pierre Parrocel (1664-1739) French} Landscape oil on canvas with windmills.Old master attribution and forensic dating, pigment analysis. Insurance valuation, written appraisal and insurance documentation issued. van Dyck: after [Sir Anthony Van Dyck [Flemish 1599-1641] Oil Portrait Charles I Authentication investigation proved the work to be a copy of an original Wolf Huber [Austrian ca.1490-1553] Drawing authentication. Charles Natoire: [Charles Joseph Natoire [French Painter,] Fresco
attribution investigation
and condition report. Jean-Baptiste Greuze attrib: [ Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (1725-1805). French] Several enquiries and attribution investigations have been conducted into this old master artists works. Many are reproductions and copies 'after.' JOSÉ BORONAT: attributed [ Jose Camaron y Boronat (Spanish, 1730-1803) Old master authentication investigation into 2 devotional works completed/ Attributed. Mariano Maell: [Mariano Salvador Maella [Spanish - Painter, 1739-1819] An Adoration . Oil on canvas. Full attribution investigation and research conducted. Dossi: Dosso Dossi (c.1490 - 1542), real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, Oil on canvas: Santi Cosma e Damiano, Full old master authentication and attribution investigation, Circle of. Francisco Domingo attrib: [ Francisco Domingo Marques [Spanish artist, 1842-1920] landscape. Authenticity Investigation proved work to be a modern fake. Claude Gelee, called CLAUDE LORRAIN Circle of {Claude Gelée de Lorrain (1600- 1682). }Pastoral Capriccio with ruins: Oil on canavas. Not attributed. Sebastián Muñoz: attributed: {Sebastian Munoz (Spanish, 1634-1709) Drawing in sepia of a saint. Old master drawiung investiagetion completed. Upheld. Hans Holbein the Elder: Attrib {Hans Holbein the Elder (1460 - 1524) - German} Spruce panel. A saint. Old master painting attribution investigation completed. Substantiated. Andrea Schiavone (also known as Andrea Meldolla) [Italian ca.1500-1563] Prophet. oil on panel Attributed following old master painting investigation / research. |
Other major research projects and attribution or authentication investigations conducted on the following artists: Bramer Brugghel Eeckout Henri Goltzius Durer Bruegel French and Spanish school Wssel de Guimbarda Daniel Vázquez Díaz Marqués Jusepe de Ribera Vicente Camarón Torra Sebastián Muñoz Juan de Valdes Leal Andrea Schiavone School and circle of Rembrandt Hans Holbein the Elder Marten van Heemskerk French
and Spanish school Claude Gelee, called CLAUDE LORRAIN Pierre Parrocel Charles Natoire Etienne Allegrain Jean-Baptiste Greuze Nicholas-Bernard Lepice Ricardo Verdugo Landi JOSÉ CAMARÓN Y BORONAT Mariano Salvador Maell Joseph Maria Subirachs Wssel de Guimbarda Daniel Vázquez Díaz Francisco Domingo Marqués Jusepe de Ribera Vicente Camarón Torra Sebastián Muñoz Juan de Valdes Leal 18TH CENTURY ITALIAN ARTIST G. GIANALI Joseph Loxton Rawbon (1855-1942) Dame Laura Knight Rene Magritte Corrodi , Hermann David Saloman. 1844-1905 River Landscape with rider. Schiele Egon Portrait of Bertha Von Wiktorin, Oil on card Jansen Joseph 1829 -1905 Mountainous Alpine landscape Racknitz -Paul Gotz 1873 –1952 Male Portrait with pipe, after Jager Van der Helst Bart 1613-1670 Dutch 53 x 45 cm. Oil, A Male Portrait. Chéri HérouardPseud. Chéri-Louis-Marie-Aimé-Haumé HerouardmBorn, 1881 Kramer Peter II - 1857-1941 , A Monk - Oil Giacinto Brandi Di Polli (b. 1621, Poli, d. 1691, Roma) Mattea Pretti Jean Charles Georget (French1833~1894 Stierhof Ernst 19C Austrian 45 x 40 cm.Oil - genre tavern interior Mary Cassatt David Hockney Robert
Motherwell - 16 x 12 inches, 41 x 30.5 cm
Drunk with Turpentine
Authentication of Rare & Antiquarian books and other antique items HISTORIA SCHOLASTICA. Petrus Comestor 'LEZIONI SCRITTURALI' John Speed - 17C.History of Great Britain. Authenticated Sir Walter Scott "The Waverley novels" Edinburgh Edition, Cadell Co., 1829 Signed. / Authenticated St. John of the Cross / Joannis Authenticated WILLIAM GEORGE BROWNE.Travels in Africa Egypt & Syria. Authenticated Little Dorrit 1855, Charles Dickens - Authenticated Posthumous Paper of the Pickwick Club, Charles Dickens. 1837. Authenticated Moliere 1786 , Authenticated Antique Carousel Horse COMPLETED Found to be 20C Counterfeit / Chinese Articulated wooden dragon C 1800 Completed (Misattributed. 19C Japanese) Carved Crucifix-Canadian/ Jesuit Missionary - Completed Royal DOULTON Figurines - The Diligent Scholar-HN 26 George III Tea Service (prov) John George Lambton “Radical Jack,” 1st Earl of Durham 1946 Douglas T35 Motorcycle Antique Silver Chanukah Menorah. Coke memorabilia. Autographs. Pop memorabilia George III Indian Peace Medal - Completed The Distinguished Service order for Valour Washington Peace Medal The Distinguished Flying Cross King George II 'Quaker' Medal 1757 Lincoln Indian Peace Medal Crimea War Medal & Sebastopol Clasp Queen Ann Treaty of Utrecht Medal Sir Arthur Sullivan Original musical score. Authenticated and Evaluated Insurance valuation and written appraisal effected Insurance documentation issued. Marilyn Monroe: rare photographs. Insurance valuation and written appraisal effectedInsurance documentation issued An aspersorium 12th. century holy water bucket. Various 19C Photogravures
A Major restitution issue: Photographs by: Eveleen Myers, Henry Peach Robinson, Lyddell Sawyer. Wexford Yeomanry Corps gallantry medal 1798 Serbian Orders and medals Ulysses S. Grant Indian Peace Medal Leather Torah Fragment Bugge Bible. 1549. Imprynted by J. Daye and W. Seres Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps Alexander
Graham Bell LettersJohann Georg Schönfelder II - Violin 1799 RMS
Titanic Postcard
Autograph authentication: Marilyn Monro Authentication of Autographs: Book. Repros. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Groucho Marx siganture Authenticated and Evaluated Gregory Peck Autograph Signature Fake Photo: Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Ava Gardiner Fake autograph " Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Brat Pack " Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Dean Martin " Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanicallyreproduced autopen. Sammy Davis Jnr. Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Peter Llawford " Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Joey Bishop" Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Frank Sinatra" Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Star Wars, Alec Guinness" Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen. Joe DiMaggio, Signed Book Fake autograph Repro. Illegitimate, Mechanically reproduced autopen.
Violins: We see hundreds of Antonius Stradivarius, Guarneri and Amati type violins annually. We also see many high quality Small-Shop instruments & some exceptional Luthier built violins and cellos. ANNIBALE FAGNOLA - MONTIGLIO MONFERRATO _ Camillo Camilli Vincenzo Ruggieri - Giuseppe Rocca - Giuseppe Testore - SANTO SERAPHIN Giovanni Francesco Pressenda - PIETRO GUARNERI OF MANTUA - GUADAGNINI GIOVANNI BATTISTA - Richard Duke CARLO TANEGIA - GIOVANNI GRANCINO Tononi, Landolphi, Farotti - Degani - Taurini - Figarini - Micelli, etc
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Albrecht Durer - Print | Completed: More modern variant |
John Fernley Snr: Painting | Completed:: Illegitimate signature |
Italian Old master drawing Bernardo Strozzi: Italian oil |
Pending Completed wrongly attributed |
Philip Peter Roos: German
oils pair |
Completed:
Attributed |
Vicente Camarón Torra: Spanish oil |
Completed: Inaccurately attributed |
Lucas van Leyden: Dutch oil |
Completed:
An illegitimate copy bearing a false signature |
Rembrandt / School of: Dutch oil |
Completed.
Misattributed. Later |
Jan van Goyen Dutch oil |
Completed: Inaccurately attributed |
Other works of art: |
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Samuel Palmer | Completed: |
Dutch school landscape Lawrence Steven Lowry - |
Completed: |
Frank Moss Bennett British oil |
Completed: A print |
Jules-Hippolyte Delaroche French | Completed |
CORINTH, Lovis ( 1858-1925) German Sitzender männlicher . Drypoint Etching |
Completed Authenticated Legal Clients |
Theodore Rousseau French oil |
Completed:
Bears
false signature |
Constantin Brâncusi Romanian Stone sculpture. |
Completed. Identified as Illegitimate. |
Vincent van Gogh Dutch oils |
Authentication
investigation completed, works bear false signatures. |
Farkas Lorinc Csallóközi. Hungarian. |
9 paintings. Completed -
Authenticated |
Vincent Drawing |
Bears
false signature -
Legal Clients |
Italian school C1900 Pair. oils |
Completed: Bearing false signature |
Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner: |
Completed:Painted
over print base |
A Hitler: Watercolor |
Completed,
a fake work bearing a false signature |
Van Dyck: |
Closed |
Schamberg. Baylinson, Ferruzzi |
Completed: |
Henri Edmond Cross French |
Completed, identified as a Fake |
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin: Russian |
Watercolour Completed. An unsupportable attribution |
ZAK, Eugène 1884-1926) Polish SELF PORTRAIT |
Completed |
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky |
Suspended |
Constance Markievicz ( Irish) |
Completed
Authenticated |
Thomas Blinks: British |
Art
Authentication investigation completed |
Alphonse Mucha 1860 - 1939 Emile Antoine Boyard. Vlamink Maurice
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Completed 2 Oils Completed Authentication of individual works by or after Pablo Picasso includes: |
Picasso / A major Dora Marr Work | PENDING Corporate clients |
Pablo Picasso :Painting / Cubist oil Picasso Cubist Drawing Pablo Picasso : Painting- A variation of Tette d'Homme 1972 |
Completed:: Illegitimate
Ongoing preliminary investigation. Ongoing and in the second stage of an international investigation Legal Clients |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso Drawing | Completed. identified as student work |
Pablo Picasso: Tette d'Homme oil also dated 1972 | Completed: Illegitimate |
Pablo Picasso: Spanish Authentication investigation into a major oil painting - Dora Maar - |
Completed:: Illegitimate
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Pablo Picasso: Drawings / A pair in pen and ink: Tette d'Homme | Pending continuum |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1973) Avant la pique - 1959 linoleum cut in colours |
Completed |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Mère et enfant : Print |
Completed: Early Commercial litho New York Graphic Society |
Picasso: A limited edition etching Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Mère et enfant |
Completed: Found to be an
Illegitimate reproduction bearing fake signature |
Picasso: 5 drawings signed Picasso |
Completed: Ebay acquisitions:
Fakes |
Picasso: Signed watercolour. |
Art Authentication investigation |
Picasso: Gouache |
Completed
. Illegitimate work by another hand - Legal
Clients |
Pablo Picasso: 1941 drawing. |
Authentication procedure ongoing
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Picasso: Various etchings |
Art
Authentication procedures completed. All modern repro Fakes |
Picasso: Tryptich |
Art
Authentication investigation completed. proven to be an Illegitimate
reproduction. |
Picasso: Etchings |
Completed.
Reproductions |
Picasso: India ink Drawing signed Picasso |
Art
Authentication investigation completed - A fake |
Picasso: Crayon drawing. signed Picasso |
Drawing
Authentication investigation completed Illegitimate |
Pablo Picasso: A Major oil painting signed Picasso. Re investigated |
Painting
Authentication investigation completed: Proven to be an illegitimate
work. |
Picasso: drawing- C 1952 |
Art Authentication investigation
Completed: An Illegitimate reproduction. |
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Other antique items: | |
An Aspersorium 12th. century holy water bucket. |
Completed. |
Various 19C Photogravures. |
Completed. Reproductions |
A Major restitution issue: |
Ongoing - Legal Clients |
Photographs by: Eveleen Myers, Henry Peach Robinson, Lyddell Sawyer. |
Completed. |
Wexford Yeomanry Corps gallantry medal 1798 |
Completed. |
Serbian Orders and medals |
Completed. |
Ulysses S. Grant Indian Peace Medal |
Authentication
investigation completed: |
Leather Torah Fragment | |
Bugge
Bible. 1549. Imprynted
by J. Daye and W. Seres |
Completed. |
1936 Berlin Olympic gold medal |
Completed.
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An American Congressional medal of honour awarded for valour; circa 1882 |
Completed. |
Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps |
Completed. |
Alexander Graham Bell Letters |
Ongoing
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Johann Georg Schönfelder II - Violin 1799 |
Completed. |
RMS Titanic Postcard |
Completed. |
We are keen to learn more about fake attribution and fake provenance paperwork. Please write to us if you have information on: Des Duxbury / Duxbury family papers in the UK Fabrizio Di Castro, Italy Professor Dr. E. Jagers Rasmus C. Olsen
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A detailed summary of the Freemanart Consultancy and its wide variety of art and antiques authentication services follows.
The clients relying on Freemanart, often specifically require the authentication of American, Canadian, British and European Art and Antiques. This would normally include the authentication of oil paintings and the authentication of water colors, acrylic paintings, pictures and prints. Authenticating Graphic works, etchings, engravings, lithographs and limited edition prints. As well as authentication of ceramics, pottery, figurines and furniture and collectibles, particularly Picasso ceramic authentication issues. We also value and investigate rare and antique books, such as bibles and first editions, maps, photographs, autographs, drawings in pencil, silver point, pen and ink and charcoal. Coins, medals, stamps, postcards and private collections of all kinds. In Canada, England, Europe and the USA, we have expert appraisers, values and authentication experts on hand who specifically appraise, value and authenticate works of art for clients on a daily basis. We also offer Forensic investigations, document, signature and handwriting analysis and investigate Fraud and Forgery of works of art and antiques and their provenance both past provenances and or histories.
About Freeman art USA: In the USA, Freemanart specifically serve the States of; Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. We take on a huge amount of art authentication work from New York, California and Florida where authentication and the identification of forgery and fraud in art in particular, is a main concern of clients requiring in the main, Pablo Picasso authentication.
Freemanart Serving the Dominion of Canada. In Canada we also have Canadian Art and
Antiques authentication experts serving the Provinces of: Ontario,
Quebec, British Columbia,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island,
Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Labrador, Nunuvit and the Yukon. We also appraise and research with a view to authenticating and proving the authenticity of African, tribal and Aboriginal art and antiques, including: Indian, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian and South American works.
Freemanart in Australia: We advise clients in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Capital Territory. We serve these Australian states as a fine art consultancy, expert in art and antiques appraisals on line, evaluation and valuation of art & antiques and authenticating and the authentication of art, oil paintings, watercolors, pictures and prints, including the authentication of Picasso Art Fakes and Forgery: As Art and Antiques appraisers specializing in the field of the authentication of paintings, pictures and antiques, we also identify and investigate art and document forgery on a daily basis, including fakes and art forgeries of all kinds. We are specialists in the identification of fake and illegitimate works of art and also forged, copied and illegitimate signatures. Much of our work load is taken up with the authentication of paintings, but we also authenticate drawings, ceramics, sculpture and limited edition prints, particularly those attributed to or after Pablo Ruiz Picasso. However, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall also account for a large proportion of our schedule of authenticating artwork and particularly the authentication of artists signatures. Our About Fakes section and archive specifically covers this subject with good examples of fake works by Picasso is also an excellent resource for interested parties.
GO TO > Freemanart Fine Art Consultancy, Central Index & Home page. Freemanart are International art consultants and experts offering expert authentication & appraisal services, including forensics and forensic research and investigation. Specialist Picasso expertise, alongside art work and antiques appraisals -and valuations.
Remember - However you may say it in our own language: Be it Art Authentication, Authentification, Beglaubigung, Autenticación, Autenticazione, Echtverklaring, Autenticação, Bekreftelse, Art Authentication, Arte Authentification, Beglaubigung, art Autenticación, Autenticazione, Echtverklaring, Autenticação, , kunst Bekreftelse. And be it the artwork of Pablo Picasso of an old master. It is our subject, our expertise our specialism and our pleasure to help you.
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