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COMPANY PROFILE |
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The dedicated individuals, scholars, academics, fine art consultants & forensic art experts who are the people & faces behind Freemanart |
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Freemanart's Executive Director and most senior fine art authentication procedures expert is the eminent British Art Historian, David Freeman, one of world's busiest and most sought after art fraud investigators and a real life Da Vinci code analyst and art detective. With 39 years of professional experience in the field of art authentication, international provenance research & world wide art fraud investigations to share with his clients around the world, David heads a formidable team of international forensic and academic art authentication experts, pursuing the authenticity of art and its applied forensic and academic authentication procedures from bases and laboratories around the globe. David Freeman was the founder of the Freemanart Consultancy in 1980, heads an authenticity investigation bureau now celebrating its 31st year as a one of the worlds leading art investigation and art fraud detection agencies. He is also a fine author, enjoying notoriety and diversity in the world of television and consultant to the very successful American TV series CSI and the BBC's Hustle..
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Freemanart
rose to international prominence in the 1980's and rapidly
took a leading role as a globally successful fine art consultancy. Freemanart's 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 the procedures, the investigation and authentication of fine art. David Freeman is North Americas busiest independent fine art consultant, art investigator, consultant 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 Freeman has enjoyed many successes across the globe in his capacity as an international art fraud detective and fine art investigator 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, personally examining well in excess of 5,000 works of art annually.
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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.
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| THE TEAM |
The fine people to whom we are indebted: the a academics - forensic scientists - scholars & experts |
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Anna Webb Administration - North America Canadian office |
Jacqueline Freeman Director of Research for Freemanart International and our company secretary. Jackie also provides specialist skills as our Forensic & 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 |
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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. |
Mr Marshall Gummer CPPAG. We are indebted to associate consultant (Canada) A leading Canadian expert specialising in ceramics, collectibles and general antiques. |
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Simon Freeman (UK) Worldwide logistics |
Fritz Taken Information Technology |
Steve Bragg Information technologist. Networking support & solutions |
David Freeman
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< Zurich: David Freeman and his eminent British colleague Dr. Nick Eastaugh seen here sampling pigments from an Italian old master for time line analysis and Radio Carbon Dating. |
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Dr Nicholas Eastaugh We are deeply indebted to the expert independent consultant: Paint, pigment, ink and paper analyst and Art Historian Dr Eastaugh and to; |
Dr. Tom Higham Expert scientist whose specialism |
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Dr Fiona Brock Chemical pretreatment & consultant for radiocarbon samples and issues concerning chemical pretreatment in radiocarbon. |
Dr Nick Brown MA MSc
DPhil Dip LATHE |
Dr. Edward (Ted) Metcalf Art Historian Based in Italy) Senior Fine Art Consultant & Expert in Art Science, Specialisms: Old Master Renaissance & early Italian art. |
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 |
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Olivier Bertand Expert Consultant. European and Russian Paintings (Belgium) |
Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn Art History Consultant and art expert. |
Joe Springall Digital imaging expert. Macroscopic - UV & Infrared technologies. North America
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Lemny Consultant, art historian and specialist art researcher. |
Daniel Fabian Consultant and specialist conservator. Specialism: Forensic investigation of paintings (Switzerland) |
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Dr Susan Taylor Consultant Art Historian (USA) |
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 |
Valentine Walsh Consultant & Conservation Expert in fine art restoration and associated technological conservation services. |
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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 . |
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E. Peters Bowron (USA)
Expert Consultant & specialist in eighteenth-century Italian art. |
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Peter Boughton Consultant |
Will Savage Expert Consultant: Materials analysis, metallurgist, casting specialist. |
Theodor Nicol: Sculpture, the art of Brancusi |
Donna Lewis CPPAG Specilaist - Antiques Consultant (Canada) |
Brother Thomas. Biblical Consultant Matters biblical. Expert in apocryphal writings and iconography |
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Salman Aziz Expert Consultant / Paper dating technologies. USA |
Peter Lukehart Expert Consultant (USA) |
Jon Jouppien Esq. BA., B Ed., MA., UE, CAGA Heritage Consultant. Expert in materials technology (Canada) |
Antony Westbridge. Consultant Canadian Art |
Duncan Parker Jewellery and precious stones consultant. President of the Canadian Gemological Association |
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Michael Chamberlain. DMS Consultant and expert in paper identification . UK |
Translators: Dr. Kim Schulte MA MPhil PhD Romanian 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 |
Dr Felicity Harley McGowan: Expert in early Christian iconography & the art of medieval Italy |
Professor Charles Hope Expert Consultant / History of the Classical Tradition |
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Ian Morris Esq. Artist Legitimacy Advisor |
Freemanart serve over 120 corporate clients world wide & have advised over 27,000 private individuals. |
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For their invaluable advisory, we are especially indebted to: |
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Dr David Antham British Art Historian |
Professor James Rubin Expert: history, theory and criticism of nineteenth-century European art |
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Institutions / Affiliations Commission for Looted Art Interpol COPACEL Confederation of Pulp, Paper, Board and Industry LAPADA PIRA CASVA - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Art Loss Register BAMF - The British Art Market Confederation Courtauld Institute The Watermark Archive Inst. of Conservation Conway and Witt Lib. British Art Library Special Collections AFed.UK Confederation of European Paper Industries International Council of Museums Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 Restitution-Art |
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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 clients on the legitimacy and authenticity of art, along with art acquisition management, art investment, fine art security matters and all procedural art authentication matters.
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P R O F I L E Jackie Freeman |
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Jackie Freeman Malaga - Spain |
Jackie Freeman is the consummate professional organiser and administrator known as 'Jac' to her friends. Jackie is a highly qualified research analyst who originates from London, England with a broad based academic background deeply rooted in academicism, starting her career in the English 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, effecting 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.
An additional claim to fame: Jackie's Grandfather made the rivets for the Sydney harbour bridge!
The Freeman's are married with a grown family. Granddaughter Evie 12 and grandson Gabriel now 4 and the newest edition to the family, Naomi now 2.
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Jackie Freeman
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The Freeman's motivation
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| ^ Naomi Freeman and Gabriel Freeman October 2010 |
^ The youngest member of the Freemanart 'authentication' team. Evie Freeman now 12 is photographed here with Pop - April 2011 at Pencarrow House in Cornwall England. Evie's in responsible for untidying her Grandpop's desk, designing 'arty stuff' on the computer and shredding lots of paper! She currently has a special interest in girly make up! Photo. © J. Freeman
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Gabriel 4 and Naomi Freeman 2
Freemanart Director David Freeman with Grandson Gabriel, April 2011 |
Naomi Freeman April 2011
Jackie Freeman with Graddaughter Evie Freeman April 2011
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| DAVID FREEMAN |
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 as an expert in his own right. David Freeman is a guest lecturer and key note speaker to Conferences & Universities around the world speaking on the specialist subject of fraud & forgery, alongside art authentication and its forensic applications internationally. He lectures
widely and is published extensively. Freeman is very proud to have accepted an invitation as a key note speaker at the Boehringer Foundation in Germany this July.
On a lighter note, David was a script and story line advisor to the popular American TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: (Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Television) and to the ever popular BBC TV crime series 'Hustle' He has also been an authentication consultant to the BBC Television series Flog It. Adviser to ITV and BBC News and Daybreak and appeared on Breakfast Television alone right across North America more than a dozen times. Freeman has received invitations to appear on two major North American television series already in 2011 which due to work load and pressing authentication investigation schedules and other client commitments he has sadly been unable to accept. Similarly, prior commitments this year have precluded acceptance of a number of invitations to lecture to passengers on board notable cruise line ships. |
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David Freeman was the subject of a special half hour TV program for the Biography Channel, "People Uncut " series and also "the Standard" filmed in Vancouver. Freemanart are currently in discussion with a number of American television production companies who are interested in making fly on the wall documentary series following our international cases of authentication, art fraud and forgery and look forward to the prospect of an engaging series in 2011.
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Historically, Freeman also wrote and hosted 'Secret Britain' and penned the north American television show, 'Treasures that Talk,' which he co-hosted. The book, the Horizontal Boy,' is an illustrated biography of the life and works of the eminent Canadian artist, Conyers Barker, was co-written with wife Jackie Freeman who is a principal business partner and executive. With well over a hundred television appearances in North America to date, his latest work is called Policing Picasso. David has also scripted a new twelve part series on the worlds strangest collectors and collections called Gathering Dust. Freeman's first major historical novel entitled, the Oakum Gate awaits publication. 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 and foundations world wide. |
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N E W S F R O M F R E E M A N A R T |
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| 2010 - INTERNATIONAL ART FORGERY INVESTIGATIONS |
USA - MEXICO - RUSSIA - UAE - AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND - PHILLIPINES - URAGUAY - Venezuala - ITALY - BRAZIL - COLUMBIA - SWITZERLAND - CANADA - FRANCE.
In recent times Freemanart lead a full scale international investigation into the authenticity of a trio of oil paintings previously attributed to Picasso in the middle east. We also investigated and ultimately exposed the questionable authenticity of several French impressionist and other modern masterpieces which accompanied the fake Picasso's in what is an astonishing case of a massive modern art fraud. Doubts had been cast by concerned clients in the Yemen & substantiated when it was revealed that all of the signed Picasso paintings bore faux Sothebys' auction stamps along with fake collectors and fictitious gallery labels. In all, the art fakes formed part of a huge $6 million dollar art fraud scam which was incredibly and inextricably linked directly to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his corrupt regime. As Freemanart's most senior fine art consultant, David Freeman conducted & completed a complicated authentication investigation in Dubai & Abu Dhabi in a case concerning the authentication of other purported Picasso oil paintings. Other major investigations followed into the authenticity of Italian and Dutch Old Master paintings & saw him working in Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, France and Canada this year. With further authentication investigations only recently completed in Chile and major attribution work just finished for clients in Moscow. Freemanart investigated several further possible legitimate Picasso paintings, two Picasso drawings & an Italian Old Master oil painting for separate collectors in Australasia, Brazil and the USA. All have proven to be fakes. The mystery surrounding the authenticity of a pair of recently discovered Vincent van Gogh oil paintings was finally solved when David Freeman's examination and investigation proved that they were also fakes painted some time after Vincent's death. Attributions are oftentimes contentious, least of all was the case of a questionable previous authentication of what turned out to be a fake Constantin Brancusi sculpture, a major priority for Freemanart Forensics investigators who discovered it was a fake sculpture and undoubtedly the tip of a Romanian art fraud iceberg. See ongoing investigations for further info and case studies:
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Freemanarts private and corporate clientele range from Royalty to an incumbent President, from principal Art Galleries and Museums to Auctioneers - Law Firms - Insurance Companies - Investment Corporations - Law enforcement agencies loss adjusters & fraud investigators, alongside ordinary people throughout the world, seeking either art values, assurance of authentication of their paintings or simply the truth behind their family myths and legends.
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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: American Art Authentication 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 authentication work 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 and 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.
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 particularly in 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.
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
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