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

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

Getting a Steele 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 Steele painting or drawing.

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

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

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

The Steele 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 Steele 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 Steele paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

T. C. Steele was an American painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Steele was born in Owen County, Indiana but spent much of his career in Indianapolis. Steele studied in a number of cities ranging from Cincinnati, Chicago and Munich.

Steele is considered to be one of the most important painters from Indiana and is associated with the Hoosier Group. Steele painted impressionist landscapes and portraits, by which he was able to make a decent living. Steele painted the Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley as well as many political figures. Landscapes were his passion and often painted on site.

Steele was successful in exhibiting and was selected to be a part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 and was elected to the National Academy of Design a few years later.

Steele bought a house with fellow painter J. Ottis Adams in Brookville, Indiana. After the death of Steele’s wife, he left the house named “The Hermitage” to Adams. Steele later moved to Brown County, Indiana with his second wife and built “House of the Singing Winds”. Steele was influential in forming a strong art colony within Brown County.

Steele became a celebrity artist in Indiana as was awarded an honorary master’s degree from Wabash College and an honorary doctorate from Indiana University. T.C. Steele’s paintings are in numerous collections in Indiana and across the United States. Do you think you own a painting by T.C. Steele? Contact us. We are the T.C. Steele experts.