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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

Another issue to keep in mind is what medium you'd like to purchase: a wide range is available including original works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, graphite as well as printed works including etchings, lithographs, silkscreens, and digital prints. Artists typically work in a few of their favorite mediums, such as mainly in oil.

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So You Found A John George Brown Painting?

Harrison Appraisals

By the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a glass factory at Newcastle-on-Tyne where his father hoped he would learn the trade of glass-cutter. While many of these works are oils on canvas, Brown also returned to watercolor, a medium he used in the mid-19 th century. Brown died in New York in 1913 at age 81.

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“Light is therefore color” – Celebrating 250 Years of J.M.W. Turner

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The customers were among the first owners of his artwork, before a long and successful career that led the art criticJohn Ruskinto describe him in 1840 as, the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age. Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. – Pope’s Villa at Twickenham. The footprints of Impressionism are clear.