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

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

Getting a Hansteen 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 Hansteen painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Hansteen painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Hansteen selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

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

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

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

The Hansteen 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 Hansteen 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 Hansteen paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Aasta Hansteen was a Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist. The daughter of a Danish mother and Christopher Hansteen , a professor of astronomy and geophysics at the University of Oslo, she started her art education in Copenhagen in 1840, and continued her training for several years in Düsseldorf. She exhibited her work at the 1855 World’s Fair in Paris.

She returned to Norway and settled in Kristiania where she for several years was the in huge demand as the city’s only portrait artist. Her most famous painting is possibly the portrait of her father, which is on permanent exhibit at the National Gallery of Norway.

Overwhelmed by the interest, she resigned from her craft for several years and moved to Telemark, where she developed an interest in Norwegian dialects. When she moved back to Kristiania, she studied with the linguist Ivar Aasen. In 1862 she published anonymously a small book written in nynorsk and has the distinction of being the first woman to publish in this language.

In 1880 she emigrated to the United States, where she lived for nine years and returned with a renewed interest in the women’s movement. She joined the The Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights and became an active contributor in the press on women’s rights. Hansteen was a vocal critic of the Judeo-Christian and Pauline perception of women, which she felt was denigrating of women’s spiritual worth.

A strong and controversial personality, she became the model for Henrik Ibsen’s character Lona Hessel in his play The Pillars of Society, as well as for the title role Gunnar Heiberg’s Aunt Ulrikke. She frequented cafes and markets on her own, and became one of the more colorful fixtures in Oslo. In her time, she was accused of misandry, but posterity has largely vindicated her.

Her grave is in Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo, marked with a bust made by Gustav Vigeland. Still wondering about a Norwegian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Aasta Hansteen.