COMPANY PROFILE

The dedicated individuals, scholars, academics, fine art consultants & forensic art experts who are the people & faces behind Freemanart

 David Freeman MD & founder of the Freemanart Consultancy in 1981, an agency now celebrating its 28th year as a one of the worlds leading art investigation and detection agencies, is also a fine author enjoying notoriety and diversity in the world of television.

HISTORY

 Freemanart  rose to international prominence in the 1980's and rapidly took a leading role as a globally successful fine art consultancy. A fine art consultancy which was & still is quite unique within the industry, specialising as it does, in the investigation of fine art, the identification of fakes and counterfeit works, the investigation of fraud & forgery and offering wide ranging authentication procedures supported by hard line forensics.

 Our executive director was formally trained in fine art, drawing and painting (NSA) and is a graduate in both Art History, English & Linguistics and is a highly regarded international expert in the field of procedural authentication of fine art.

 He is North Americas busiest independent art consultant, art investigator, appraiser & valuers of art and is regarded as one of the worlds leading art detectives, endearingly labeled the 'Treasure Finder General' by the North American media.

David has enjoyed many successes in his capacity as an international art fraud detective and fine art investigator right across the world and is perhaps best known for identifying many fakes and scams alongside forgotten masterpieces throughout a world in which he is a leading exponent in his field, examining in excess of 4,000 works of art annually.

The Freemanart Consultancy - Our Experts Profile

 Operating internationally and working from bases and forensic laboratories in Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany the Freemanart Consultancy provide a distinguished team of fine art investigators, art experts and antiquities consultants, all of whom are prominent experts and specialists in their field with many world leaders in matters of procedural authentication.
It is a remarkable and talented team of highly qualified forensic examiners, art fraud investigators, research analysts, fine art consultants and art appraisers, who are all dedicated to the pursuit of legitimacy, the varied issues of correct and finite attribution and the absolute authentication of art.

The Academics - Forensic Scientists - Scholars & Experts. The fine people to whom we are indebted

In no specific or subjective order.

Anna Webb

Administrative Director - North America - Canadian office

Jacqueline Freeman

Director of Research for Freemanart International & company secretary. Jackie also provides all our Forensic and specialist photographic imaging.

Maureen Wickham

Antiquarian, expert authority, senior consultant & appraiser of antiques. Expert valuer of ceramics, pottery, porcelain glass wear, silver, virtue, antique and contemporary furniture

Henry Jones Esq.

Senior Consultant. A British expert in ceramics, pottery and porcelain. Henry specialises in British, European, Canadian & American Antiques, Collectibles and antique furniture.

Graham Ospreay, FACFE, ISA

Senior Consultant, Forensic Document Examiner.

Handwriting and signature analyst - North America

John Murphy

Senior Consultant. Gemologist  and jewellery expert. Specialism: Silver, timepieces, antique and modern jewellery and virtue

Morana Zeskoski

Conservator - Expert in fine art restoration and associated technological conservation services.

Jeanette Lindner

Research specialist / European.

Mathew Freeman (UK)

IT expert. Specialist in research & investigation with a special interest in early works on paper, ancient writings and historical documents.

Steve Bragg 

Information technologist. Networking support & solutions

Mr Marshall Gummer CPPAG.

Associate Consultant  (Canada)

A leading Canadian expert specialising in ceramics, collectibles and general antiques.

Simon Freeman  (UK)

Worldwide logistics

Fritz Taken
Information Technology

Expert

< Zurich: David Freeman and his eminent colleague Dr. Nick Eastaugh sampling pigments from an Italian old master for time line analysis and Radio Carbon Dating.

Dr Edward (Ted) Metcalf

Art Historian  Based in Italy)

Senior Fine Art Consultant and Expert in Art Science, Specialisms: Old Master - Renaissance & early Italian art.

Dr Nicholas Eastaugh

Expert Consultant: Paint, pigment,

ink and paper analyst and

Art Historian (UK)

Dr Tom Higham

Expert scientist whose specialism is the archaeological applications of radiocarbon. He is sampling advisor for radiocarbon dating and radiocarbon pre-treatment research

Dr Fiona Brock

Chemical pretreatment & consultant for radiocarbon samples and issues concerning chemical pretreatment in radiocarbon.

Dr Phil Greaves

C.Text.FTI; Dip. RMS

MICROGRAPHY – FIBRE IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES

Dr Allan Brown CSMA

Consultant. Expert on surface analysis techniques, fibres and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Joe Springall

Digital imaging expert. Macroscopic - UV & Infrared technologies. North America

Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Art History Consultant and art expert.

Olivier Bertand

Expert Consultant. European and Russian Paintings (Belgium)

Daniel Fabian

Consultant and specialist conservator. Specialism: Forensic investigation of paintings (Switzerland)

Prof. Patricia Meilman

Art Historian / Consultant and Renaissance expert

Srebrenka Zeskoski.

BA (C'dia), MA (Tor.)

Art Historian and Senior Conservator. Expert consultant in historical techniques, fine art restoration and associated technological services

Stephen Poulin Bsc. M.A.C

Expert in Paper Conservation and Consultant - Works on paper

Dr Susan Taylor

Consultant Art Historian (USA)

Valentine Walsh

Consultant & Conservation Expert in fine art restoration and associated technological conservation services.

Dr. Friedrich Teja Bach:

Sculpture

Professor Jaynie Anderson

Specialist Consultant in Italian and Venetian Renaissance art.

Dr. Moshe Brown

Expert Consultant in Judaica and Hebraica

James Kingdon

Associate Consultant UK .
Specialisms: west country paintings. & watercolours

Peter Boughton

Consultant

Will Savage

Expert Consultant: Materials analysis, metallurgist, casting  specialist.

Theodor Nicol:

Sculpture, the art of Brancusi

Salman Aziz

Expert Consultant / Paper dating technologies. USA

Donna Lewis CPPAG

Specilaist  - Antiques  Consultant  (Canada)

Jon Jouppien Esq. BA., B Ed., MA., UE, CAGA

Heritage Consultant. Expert in materials technology (Canada)

Brother Thomas.

Biblical Consultant

Matters biblical. Expert in apocryphal writings and iconography

Antony Westbridge.

Consultant Canadian Art

Duncan Parker

Jewellery and precious stones consultant.

President of the Canadian Gemological Association

Michael Chamberlain. DMS

Consultant and expert in paper identification . UK

Dr Felicity Harley McGowan:

Expert in early Christian

iconography & the art of medieval Italy

Professor Charles Hope

Expert Consultant / History of the Classical Tradition

Translators:

Dr. Kim Schulte MA MPhil PhDRomanian and Hispanic Translation

Eva Straus Slavic Translation:

Mr A. Halool Arabic

Frederique Ozanam

French translation:

Walter Feilchenfeldt

19th and 20th Century French, German & Swiss Art

Ian Morris Esq.

Artist Legitimacy Advisor

 Freemanart maintain a prestigious portfolio of corporate, Legal and Private clients from around the world including many prominent personalities from the realms of the Film and Television industry, Music, Sport & Commerce. Advising them on the legitimacy and authenticity of art, along with art acquisition management, art investment,  fine art security matters and all  art authentication procedures.

P R O F I L E

Jackie  Freeman

    Jackie Freeman

     Malaga - Spain

 Jackie Freeman is the consummate professional organiser and administrator & always 'Jac' to her friends.

 Jackie is a highly qualified research analyst from London, England with a broad based academic background deeply rooted in academicism, starting her career in the capital in British banking commerce & accountancy.

 Jackie is and has been a principal partner in the Freemanart Consultancy for many years, traveling around the world extensively in her work principally dealing in the procedures of authentication of Fine Art, researching in archive, forensic imaging and cataloguing.

She has a formidable talent as an art researcher and investigator who has worked at the cutting edge in the field of international art fraud investigation for well over a decade.

 Jackie Freeman is also responsible for the provision of forensic images for the Freemanart consultancy including; Forensic, spectrographic, ultra violet, infra red, macro and microscopic imagery and photography.                        

Additional claim to fame:

Jackie's Grandfather made the rivets for the Sydney harbour bridge! 

  Jackie Freeman adds great breadth to the research capability of the Freemanart team, bringing superlative expertise in her own right to the companies profile and acting as our 'Research Director and also taking a leading corporate role as Company Secretary.

 The Freeman's are married with a grown family. Granddaughter Evie 11 and grandson Gabriel  now 3 and the newest edition to the family, Naomi 6 months old.

Living in North America, Spain and the UK, the Freeman's commute regularly across the globe in their authentication, attribution, appraisal and art investigation work.

Jackie Freeman

^ The youngest member of the Freemanart team.

Evie Freeman now 11. Evie's in charge of untidying her Grandpop's desk, designing 'stuff' on the computer and shredding lots of paper!

David Freeman

with granddaughter
Evie Freeman  10

Photo. © J. Freeman

Meet the latest addition to the Freeman family. Granddaughter Naomi, Gabriel's new sister.  

Held here by Evie Freeman now aged eleven and naturally, doing brilliantly at school !

No bias from the boss here then!

Photos by:
Jackie Freeman Photography

Cornwall, England

P R O F I L E

  Freemanart's Executive Director David Freeman is a Consultant & Advisor to the Film & Television industry on both sides of the Atlantic. He is also a fine author writing historical & biographical works, books & regular articles on art and art history and appears regularly on television.

 David Freeman is a guest lecturer and key note speaker to many Conferences & Universities on the subject of fraud & forgery internationally.

He lectures widely and is published extensively

 David is a script and story line advisor to the  popular American TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation:

(Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Television.) and was advisor to the popular BBC TV crime series 'Hustle'

He is also a consultant to the BBC Television series Flog It.

Above : Shannon Nelson interviews Freemanart's Principal Director
David Freeman, for the Biography Channel, filmed in Vancouver, May 2006.

 David Freeman continues to work internationally as Principal Director of the IAID Programme and was a Trustee Director for the Kosovo Trust during the conflict years and works selflessly for charitable organisations & foundations world wide.

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SERVICES SUMMARY

A detailed summary of  the services offered by the Freemanart Consultancy and our wide variety of art and antique authentication services follows. Please navigate the buttons at the top of your screen (above) to learn more on each topic.

The clients who rely on Freemanart for advice, often specifically require the authentication of American, Canadian, British and European Art and Antiques. our work load would normally include the appraisal  or authentication of oil paintings, watercolours, acrylic paintings, pictures & prints. Etchings, engravings, lithographs and limited edition prints, as well as ceramics, porcelain, pottery, figurines antique furniture and collectibles.

Freemanart also value and investigate rare and antique books, bibles and first editions, alongside maps, photographs, autographs, drawings in pencil, silverpoint, 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, valuers and authentication experts on hand who specifically appraise, value and authenticate works of art for clients on a daily basis. We also offer and conduct Forensic investigation, document, signature and handwriting analysis and investigate fraud and the forgery of works of art and antiques and their provenance  both past provenances and or history.

About Freemanart 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 and Dali authentication.

We also take on a huge amount of authenticationwork from New York, California and Florida, where art authentication and the identification of forgery and art fraud  in particular, is a main concern particularly for clients requiring Picasso and Dali 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. All of our Canadian Art and Antiques appraisers and valuers are available to assist (either on line or by private appointment,) with the authentication of paintings from all eras including; Old masters, landscapes, marine and still life paintings, religious subjects, icons, portraits, pictures and prints and from all eras including:

15th century, XV, 16th century, XVI, 17th century, XVI, 18th century, XVIII, 19th century, IXX and 20th century, XX. This would naturally include paintings and works of art from the Italian school; the Spanish School, the Flemish school, British and Scottish Schools, French and Russian school, the Dutch and Belgian School, Hungarian and German schools, the Irish school, the Oriental schools, Chinese and Japanese school and including Canadian Art  and the American schools such as the Hudson River school and the Canadian Group of Seven.

We also appraise and work on investigations concerning the authentication of African, tribal and Aboriginal art and antiques, including: Indian, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian and South American works.

Freemanart in Australia:

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, the evaluation and the valuation of art & antiques and the authentication of art including; oil paintings, watercolours, pictures and prints.

Fakes and Forgery:

As Art and Antiques appraisers specialising in the field of the authentication of paintings, pictures and antiques, we also identify and investigate forgery, including fakes and forgeries of all kinds.

We are specialists in the identification of fake and illegitimate works of art and also forged signatures.

Much of our work load is taken up with the authentication of oil paintings, but we also work on projects with a view to authenticate works on paper such drawings and limited edition prints, particularly those attributed to or after Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

However, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall also account for a large proportion of our schedule of authenticating artwork and particularlyin the authentication of artists signatures and autographs

Our About Fakes section archive and specifically covers this subject with good examples of fake artwork by Picasso and Dali.

 http://www.artfake.net is an excellent resource for those interested in learning more about art fraud, forgery and fakes..

Freemanart are actively seeking works of art, particularly oil paintings by Farkas Lorinc - signed: Farkas Lorinc Csallóközi or Lörinc Farkas who was Hungrian and Fedor van Kregten who was Dutch.