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

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

Getting a Smibert 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 Smibert painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Smibert 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 Smibert 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 Smibert paintings or drawings take longer.

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

Do you think you may own a painting by John Smibert?

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

John Smibert was a Scottish born painter based in Boston, Massachusetts during the early 1700’s. Smibert was one of the leading portrait painters of his time, creating some 300 portraits of early colonial Americans in the style of the Old Masters.

Smibert initially worked as a house painter in Edinburgh as well as in London. He would also copy paintings and learned how to draw at the Academy of Sir James Thornhill while he was in London. It wasn’t until Smibert traveled to Italy around 1719 when he was able to view the works of Raphael and Titian, and was highly influenced by their style.

Smibert was eventually offered a position to teach art in Bermuda through his friend Dean Berkeley. By 1729, Smibert had immigrated to America, staying in Newport, Road Island for a short while before landing in Boston. It is thought that in 1730 Smibert assembled what was probably the first ever art show in America. That same year, Smibert married an heiress and it was then that his career finally took off.

Today, Smibert’s work is housed all over New England in public collections and private estates, including Harvard College. Today, unknown works of Smiberts’ could still be in existence in Scotland, England, Bermuda and all over New England, particularly in Boston. Still wondering about a Colonial era portrait hanging in your family home? Contact us…it could be by John Smibert.