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

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

Getting a Matthews 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 Matthews painting or drawing.

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

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

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

The Matthews 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 Matthews 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 Matthews paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Arthur F. Matthews was an American painter of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Matthews was born in Markesan, Wisconsin but spent most of his childhood in San Francisco. Matthews’ father moved the family to California in 1866 to work as an architect. Matthews assisted his father and learned a great deal about architecture.

Matthews enrolled at the California School of Design and studied painting under Virgil Williams. Matthews had various jobs in San Francisco, working as an illustrator, designer and lithographer.

In 1885 Matthews travelled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. Matthews was instructed by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. After four years in Paris, Matthews returned to California to teach at the San Francisco Art Students League and the California School of Design. In 1890 Matthews became the director of the California School of Design. Matthews made a great impact on the Academy and the development of art in California. Many of Matthews students became well-known artists, such as Percy Gray, Xavier Martinez and Maynard Dixon.

In 1906 after the San Francisco earthquake, Matthews left his teaching jobs to open a store of self-designed furniture and to publish Philopolis, a monthly arts and crafts magazine. Matthews was also commissioned to paint several murals, including a series for the State Building in Sacramento, California.

Matthews was known to work in a variety of media, ranging from oil paints, fresco, gouache and watercolor. The Oakland Museum of California boasts the largest collection of Matthews work. Matthews work can also be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and numerous private collections throughout the United States. Do you think you may own a painting by Arthur F. Matthews? Contact us. We are the Arthur F. Matthews experts.