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

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

Getting a Metcalf 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 Metcalf painting or drawing.

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

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

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

William Leroy Metcalf was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Metcalf moved to Boston as a young adult to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Metcalf excelled as a student and decided to continue his education at the Academie Julian in Paris. In Paris Metcalf worked with Gustave Boulanger and Jules- Joseph Lefebvre, making trips around Europe. Metcalf was the first American artist to visit Giverny, and made inspirational trips to Algeria and Tunisia.

Metcalf eventually settled in New York where he worked as an illustrator and landscape painter. Metcalf befriended prominent figures in the art scene and became part of a group called the Ten American Painters, who broke away from the Society of American Artists. Metcalf did most of his paintings in oil, but was also a proficient watercolor artist. In 1893 Metcalf joined the American Watercolor Society.

Metcalf taught painting for many years at varying institutions around New York including the Woman’s Art School, Cooper Union and the Art Students League.

When Metcalf was not in New York, he would take painting trips around New England. Metcalf frequented a Connecticut artists’ colony in Old Lyme where he painted a large body of landscape paintings.

Metcalf’s work is now in major museums in Washington D.C. and New York. Metcalf’s work has inspired American landscape painters for generations. Do you think you own a painting by Willard Leroy Metcalf? Contact us. We are the Willard Leroy Metcalf experts.