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

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

Getting a Schendel 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 Schendel painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Schendel 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 Schendel 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 Schendel paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Petrus van Schendel was a Netherlandish painter born in Belgium to a Dutch family. Van Schendel has been called “the master of light and atmosphere” by art critics, and his work was classical in nature, yet fresh in technique. He studied at the Antwerp Academy, where he studied under and worked there until 1928. That same year, he moved to Holland where he lived in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague before he finally settled in Brussels in 1845.

Van Schendel was a talented portrait painter, but is notable today for his stunning depictions of night time market scenes. These compositions are beautifully executed and employ candle light and shadow in a way that few other artists so successfully achieved. Van Schendel’s paintings almost seem to glow and come alive. He began these paintings once he settled in Brussels, and won a number of prizes for them, even winning a gold medal for his painting “A Moonlit Market.”

These night time market scenes were painted by torch, candle or moonlight, giving him extraordinary use of shadow. Not only did van Schendel use these techniques outside, but for interior scenes as well. These were usually created with oil on panel, as opposed to canvas.

He exhibited and traveled all over Europe, particularly in Brussels, Paris and at the Royal Academy in London. Today, his work is housed all over Europe, and perhaps in your own home. Still wondering about a Belgian night time scene in your family estate? Contact us…it could be by Petrus van Schendel.