Get a Durand Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Durand drawing.

For all your Durand artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Durand Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Durand painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Durand and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Durand experts and Durand certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Durand artworks.

Our Durand paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Durand certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Durand painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Durand paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Durand collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Asher Brown Durand art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Asher Brown Durand or we will sell it for you.

Durand was born in New Jersey in 1796. Durand’s house is now recognized as a national landmark in an area referred to as “Durand-Heden”.

Asher Durand was a leading, American painter of the Hudson River School, known masterful landscape painting rendered directly from nature. Durand followed the spiritual philosophy of the Hudson River School, which believed that nature was a manifestation of God.

Durand worked under an engraver in his early life. As Durand’s skills grew he became a part-owner and manager of a New York engraving firm. Durand was known as the country’s top engraver. Durand was responsible for engraving historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence for John Trumbull.

Around 1830 Durand was encouraged to initiate a career as an oil painter. Durand worked side-by-side with Thomas Cole, drawing the lakes and foliage in the Adirondacks. Durand also made frequent drawing trips to the Catskills and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Durand would return to his studio and transform his drawings into epic, oil paintings.

Durand was active in the New York community of artists, organizing the New-York Drawing Association, now known as the National Academy of Design, and the Sketch Club, known as the Century Association.

Durand is known as a leading figure of the Hudson River School. Durand’s paintings helped to define a genre of landscape painting and set high standards for his peers to follow. Durand’s paintings are highly sought after to this day. Do you think you may own a painting by Asher Durand? Contact us. We are the Asher Durand experts.