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

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

Getting a Severn 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 Severn painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Severn 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 Severn 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 Severn paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter. He was born in London. During his earlier years he practiced portraiture as a miniaturist; and, having studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, he exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819. In 1820, he gained the gold medal and a three years’ traveling studentship for his Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair. He accompanied his friend John Keats the poet to Italy and nursed him till his death in 1821.

In 1861 he was appointed British consul at Rome, a post which he held till 1872, and during a great part of the time he also acted as Italian consul. His most remarkable work is the Spectre Ship from the Ancient Mariner. He painted Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, The Roman Beggar, Ariel, The Fountain, and Rienzi, executed a large altarpiece for the church of St Paul at Rome, and produced many portraits, including one of Baron Bunsen and several of Keats. He died at Rome, where he is buried in the Protestant Cemetery next to John Keats.

Still wondering about a British painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Joseph Severn.