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

Getting a Sofonisba 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 Sofonisba painting or drawing.

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

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

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You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Sofonisba paintings or drawings take longer.

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

Sofonisba Anguissola is historically the first female to ever gain international recognition as a painter. Certainly she was not the first female to ever pick up a paint brush, but during the Renaissance era, she was the first to break through into a profession then dominated by men and became a noted and respected artist.

Anguissola was an Italian artist, born in Cremona to a noble family. She took formal painting lessons with her sister, Elena, under local portrait painter Bernardo Campi. It is believed that it wasn’t until Campi accepted her as a student that others began to accept female pupils as well. After she studied with Campi, she continued her work with painter Bernardino Gatti. It is said that Anguissola became so revered in her day that even the artist Michelangelo sent her some of his sketches so that she could critique them. In turn, Anguissola copied them, and these sketches would surely have great value today. It is also known that she was visited by artist Anthony van Dyck in her later years, as her likeness is sketched in his notebook along with notes on her artistic advice.

It is thought that she was a fairly prolific painter, for some 50 of her works still survive today—a relatively high number for a 16th century artist. Anguissola generally painted portraits. She was fond of painting little dogs in her portraits, and painted a number of self-portraits and portraits of her family.

After she married in 1570, it is generally believed that she did not continue to paint. She spent the rest of her life raising her three children in Palermo and Genoa and was a wealthy patron of the arts until she began to go blind.

Today her works are housed all over Europe, many at the Prado Museum in Madrid. She was an inspiration in her time and today for fellow female painters, and she set the precedence in her era for women to enter the art world. Still wondering about a Renaissance era portrait hanging in your home? Contact us…we are the Sofonisba Anguissola experts.