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

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

Getting a Serres 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 Serres painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Serres 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 Serres 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 Serres paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Dominic Serres, also known as Dominic Serres the Elder, was a French-born painter strongly associated with the English school of painting, and with paintings with a naval or marine theme. Such were his connections with the English art world, that he became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and was later briefly (from 1792 until his death) its librarian.

Born in Auch, Gascony, he was initially expected to train as a priest but instead travelled to Spain and became a ship’s captain, sailing to Cuba. He was taken prisoner by the British navy towards the end of the 1740s and eventually settled in London in about 1758, where it is believed he trained as a painter in Northamptonshire and later in London under Charles Brooking.

Reflecting his early career, many of his paintings have naval themes. Working for a publisher documenting the events in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), he painted a series of depictions including the capture of Havana (1762). He also painted events in the American War of Independence (1776-1783). In 1780, he was appointed Marine Painter to King George III.

Serres died in 1793, and was buried at St. Marylebone Old Church. His eldest son John Thomas Serres (1759 – 1825) also became a prolific marine artist. Still wondering about a British painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Dominic Serres.