Services

The Art Management Group undertakes a wide range of services, including due diligence, collection conservation and management, risk assessment and security as well as legal issues, recovery and dispute resolution.

Due Diligence - Pre Purchase

• Advising on and sourcing of objects for purchase and investment.
• Due Diligence on objects to ensure no third party claim to title.
• Due Diligence on buyers/sellers in accordance with money laundering legislation and compliance with financial regulations.
• Scientific examination of objects for dating, authentification and the prevention of fraud.
• Historic research into objects and their provenance.
• Insurance and Probate valuations.
• Insurance advice.

Collection Care

• Pre-Purchase and collection Condition Surveys.
• Expert advice on the conservation of objects with recommendations to appropriate conservators.
• Management of the conservation process.
• Collection Condition Surveys and the creation, implementation and ongoing review of conservation programs.
• Long term collection care and advice, as well as implementation of storage and display standards monitoring thereof.

Preventative Conservation

• Risk assessments of the local environment, temperature, humidity, lighting, hazardous substances, and pest control with recommendations for remedial and preventative conservation.

Security & Risk Assessments

• Risk assessments for premises, loan and storage facilities at home and abroad.
• Security Surveys incorporating alarms and sensor recommendations, imaging & black screen monitoring.
• Transport risk assessments and recommendations compliant with insurance and indemnified conditions.

Security Marking

• Advice and application of security/ID marking material to the highest conservation standards.
• Macro photography.
• Storage of relevant security marking data on secure databases with long-term assurance of secure maintenance.

Collection management

• Inventory creation, photography and valuation of objects.
• Introduction to management system software to provide, in one place, an easily accessible and complete management record for each object within the collection as well as the collection as a whole.
• Valuations for insurance, probate or investment purposes.

Disaster Recovery

• Advice on Disaster Planning and Recovery plans.
• Review of third party Disaster Plans and recovery strategies.
• Advice on Disaster Planning as a component of grant applications.

Post Theft & Recovery

• Theft/loss investigations including forensic examination of scene and objects.
• International circulation of stolen/lost objects utilising the largest international databases for stolen art, antiques and cultural property providing screening of worldwide art markets.
• Investigation of database matches and the retrieval of stolen property through negotiation and mediation.

Dispute Resolution & Litigation.

• Dispute resolution through professional mediation and arbitration.
• Confidential enquiries in support of litigation.
• Case assessment and advice on litigation.
• Advice on international cultural property claims and anti seizure laws.

Tax and Inheritance

• Advice on wills and estate planning and administration.
• Advice on heritage property, historic houses and works of art including exemption from inheritance tax.
• Advice on charitable objects and rules.

Collection Disposal

• Sale or disposal advice within the art market, private sales or through well established relationships with museums and galleries.

Storage, Transportation and Shipping

• Long and short-term storage in approved secure facilities providing environmental control for large collections to individual items.
• Professional handling, packaging, transportation and shipping of objects.
• Insurance cover for objects whilst in storage and in transit.