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

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

Getting a Ames 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 Ames painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Ames 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 Ames 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 Ames paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

Ezra Ames was an early American artist, born in Massachusetts and raised in New York. Ames initially was a carriage and furniture painter in Massachusetts, and around 1790 he began to paint portraits and specialized in miniatures. He moved his family to Albany in 1795, and joined a sign painting and portrait business.

Throughout his career, Ames painted over 700 recorded pictures, 500 of which were portraits of families in Albany. These paintings were executed in a number of different styles. For 40 years, Ames was the most prominent portrait painter in Albany, and is thought to be the most prolific artist that the city has ever seen.

Ames has been hailed by art critics for his use of different techniques in his paintings like trompe l’oeil, as well as for creating Realistic depictions of his sitters. Though the majority of his paintings were portraits, Ames also created a number of landscapes, still life, historical scenes and engravings.

Today, the biggest collection of Ames’ work is housed at the Albany Institute of History and Art, and other pieces are scattered in public and private collections all over the world. Still wondering about that portrait of a distant relative from Albany hanging in your home? Contact us…it could be by Ezra Ames.