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

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

Getting a Bennett 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 Bennett painting or drawing.

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

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

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

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

The Bennett 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 Bennett 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 Bennett paintings or drawings take longer.

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

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

William James Bennett was an early American painter and engraver, born in England. He received his artistic training at the Royal Academy and studied painting, sculpture and engraving. As a young man, he began to exhibit watercolors in London and continued to do so until he left for the United States in 1826.

Weehawken from Turtle Grove

Bennett’s reputation as a watercolor painter followed him to the United States and earned him a spot as a member of the National Academy of Design. Bennett eventually became a teacher and lived on the campus and exhibited his work there often. 

Some art historians also consider Bennett to be the master of aquatint in his time. He created a number of aquatints based on his own paintings, and became famous for cityscapes and street scenes of New York. Bennett was not limited to painting scenes of just New York, and created watercolors of other New England and southern cities as well.

Bennett also created a number of illustrations and engravings for books as well as the New York City magazine “The Mirror.” His first commission while living in New York was to create watercolors, and then aquatints of Manhattan city scenes. These were later published in “Megarey’s Street Views in the City of New-York.”

Because Bennett was an established artist in both England and the United States, his watercolors could be found today literally anywhere. Still wondering about a 19th century print of a New England city scene hanging in your home? Contact us…it could be by William James Bennett.