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

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

Getting a Horsley 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 Horsley painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Horsley 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 Horsley 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 Horsley paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

John Callcott Horsley, an English painter and son of William Horsley, the musician, and grand-nephew of Sir Augustus Callcott, was born in London.

He studied painting in the Academy schools, and in 1836 exhibited “The Pride of the Village” (Vernon Gallery) at the Royal Academy. This was followed by numerous genre pictures at subsequent exhibitions up to 1893, the best known of these being “Malvolio,” “L’Allegro and il Penseroso” (painted for the Prince Consort), “Le Jour des Morts,” “A Scene from Don Quixote,” etc.

In 1843 his cartoon of “St Augustine Preaching” won a prize in the Westminster Hall competition, and in 1844 he was selected as one of the six painters commissioned to execute frescoes for the Houses of Parliament, his “Religion” (1845) being put in the House of Lords; he also painted the “Henry V assuming the Crown” and “Satan surprised at the Ear of Eve.” In 1864 he became RA, and in 1882 was elected treasurer, a post which he held till 1897, when he resigned and became a “retired Academician.”

Horsley designed the first ever Christmas card, commissioned by Henry Cole. It caused some controversy because it depicted a small child drinking wine. He also designed the Horsley envelope, a pre-paid envelope that was the precursor to the postage stamp.

Horsley had much to do with organizing the winter exhibitions of “Old Masters” at Burlington House after 1870. When, during the ‘eighties, the example of the French Salon began to affect the Academy exhibitors, and paintings of the nude became the fashion, he protested against the innovation, and his attitude caused Punch to give him the punning sobriquet of “Mr J C (lothes) Horsley.”

His son, Sir Victor Horsley (b. 1857), became famous as a surgeon and neuropathologist, and a prominent supporter of the cause of experimental research. Still wondering about a painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by John Horsley.