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

Getting a Bingham 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 Bingham painting or drawing.

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

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

George Caleb Bingham was an American painter known for his scenes of the Western frontier. Bingham was born in Virginia on his grandfather’s farm but moved to Missouri Territory with his family at a young age.

At this time French and English settlers as well as Osage Indians inhabited the land. The Bingham family opened an inn called The Square and Compass. At the inn Bingham met Chester Harding, one of America’s greatest portraitists. Harding had been painting a portrait of the legendary folk hero, Daniel Boone.

Bingham was interested in working as an artist and assisted Harding with his portraits. Bingham was able to study alongside Harding, viewing his many studies and sketches. In 1823, when Bingham’s father died, his mother moved the family to a farm across the river called Arrow Rock. During this period of time Bingham learned to be a woodworker, working under Reverand Jesse Green.

Bingham returned to working with the painter Chester Harding, who strongly encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. Bingham was given his first artist materials from Harding and began painting portraits on his own.

Bingham departed from portraiture and started painting genre scenes of life in the Western frontier. Bingham’s paintings often documented commerce along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and communities around St. Louis, Boonville and Kansas City.

Bingham also made historical paintings depicting scenes from the American Revolution and ongoing political uprisings. Bingham became known as “The Missouri Artist” as word of his talent and spread throughout the western region. Bingham painted countless portraits of people in Missouri, and recorded well his state’s developing landscape.

Bingham’s paintings became iconic images of 19th century frontier life. While a concentration of Bingham’s work is in St. Louis, Missouri, his paintings are in collections across the United States. Many of Bingham’s landscapes and portraits have been lost overtime. Do you think you own a painting by George Bingham? Contact us. We are the Bingham experts.