Authentication of old master painting , drawings & prints
Freemanart Consultancy
OLD MASTERS AUTHENTICATION
Authenticating the Art of the Old Masters
Italian - French - German, Spanish, Flemish & English
When we refer to the authentication of the Old Masters in general terms, we mean paintings, drawings and prints which were created by any one of the world's leading and most influential European artists of great quality and ability who lived and worked sometime between the 14th to the early 19th century.
Though clearly many great master craftsmen also qualify who followed later.
There are a great number of artists of this top ranking calibre from the early years of art history and although the subject matter they chose may be similar in many ways, portraiture, landscape, the Holy Family and Biblical scenes, their country of origin, region and therefore individual style may and does vary dramatically.
Freemanart who specialise in international art authentication investigations, have exclusive access to archives throughout Europe and are privileged to have worked on and investigated hundreds of Old Master works of art from all over the world. Be it seeking and researching their authenticity for clients, discovering and delivering accurate attributions, assisting with delicate repatriation issues, or identifying fake and illegitimate works of art.
List of few of the world's principal artists considered to be Old Masters
OLD MASTERS
Giotto di Bondone (Italian, 1267–1337)
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519)
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Michelangelo (Italian, 1475–1564)
Titian (Italian, c.1477–1576)
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445–1510)
Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520)
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543)
Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, c.1525–1569)
Paolo Veronese (Italian, c.1528–1588)
El Greco (Greek-born Spanish, 1541–1614)
Frans Hals (Dutch, 1580–1666)
Caravaggio (Italian, 1573–1610)
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)
Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1691–1770)
Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723–1792)
Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Many of the old master paintings we have investigated, turn out to be wrongly attributed to a particular artist, as in the case of the Self Portrait on the left which is not by the Flemish Old Master - Rembrandt van Rijn but simply a copy of an unfinished self portrait originally painted by Rembrandt in about 1659. However, it was presented for sale as original.
< Though Rembrandt painted many self portraits in his lifetime, scholars believe over 50, he did not repeat any of them or paint this one which was discovered in South America.
Though dramatically imitating the style of Rembrandt, the Portrait of a wealthy man (above) and seen under ultra violet light showing earlier repairs and damaged areas, was created later by about fifty years or so, as forensic investigation and analysis of the pigment and canvas showed.
Freemanart's Executive Director - David Freeman examines an old master painting; The release of Saint Peter by Bernardo Strozzi at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
