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

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

Getting a Gifford 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 Gifford painting or drawing.

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

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

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

The Gifford 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 Gifford 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 Gifford paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Sanford Robinson was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School. Gifford’s landscapes are known for their stylistic use of light called “luminism”. Gifford was born in Greenfield, New York but spent many of his early years in Hudson, New York. Gifford studied at Brown University before pursuing a career as an artist in New York City. Gifford studied the fundamentals of art under the direction of the British watercolor artist, John R. Smith. Gifford also took anatomy classes at the Crosby Street Medical College and drawing classes at the National Academy of Design.

In 1847 Gifford exhibited for the first time at the National Academy. Gifford continued to work at the Academy as an associate. Gifford fully pursued landscape painting and became one of the greatest artists of the Hudson River School.

Gifford traveled a great deal, painting landscapes worldwide. Gifford traveled to Europe extensively as well as making regional trips around New England. Gifford’s journeys took him as far as the Middle East, including Egypt.

Gifford would return to his New York City studio to document his travels on canvas. One of Gifford’s paintings of Vermont was submitted to an annual show at the National Academy of Design in 1859 and is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Gifford painted more than seven hundred paintings during his career. Do you think you own a painting by Sanford Robinson Gifford? Contact us. We are the Sanford Robinson Gifford experts.