Request a free valuation
Send photographs of the work and we will tell you what it is likely to make, and where it would do best. There is no charge, and no obligation to sell.
Your work
What to send
Send as much or as little as you have to hand. Phone photographs are fine — we are reading the work, not admiring the picture.
- The front, and the whole of it
- Square on, in daylight if you can, with the frame in shot. A photograph taken at an angle hides exactly the things we are looking at.
- The reverse
- More valuable than the front, surprisingly often. Labels, stamps, inscriptions and old gallery stickers are what place a work, and they are all on the back.
- The signature, and any edition marking
- Close enough to read. On a print, the pencil line along the bottom edge — the numbering, any proof marking, and the signature if there is one.
Or write to info@whitebankfineart.co.uk with the images attached, or send them on WhatsApp.
Common questions
Is the valuation really free?
Yes, and there is no obligation to sell afterwards. Most of what we are asked to look at we will never sell — people want to know what they have, and that is a perfectly good reason to ask. The valuations that do turn into sales pay for the ones that do not.
Do I need to be near you?
No. Valuations are made from photographs, so the work stays where it is and nothing is shipped or carried anywhere to be looked at. We are in London, by appointment, and act for sellers across the United Kingdom. Where a work genuinely does need to be seen in person, that is arranged.
What if I do not know what it is?
That is the usual position, and it is what the photographs are for. Inherited and long-held work often arrives with no paperwork and no name attached. Send what you have and we will tell you what we can see.
If you would rather read first, how a valuation is arrived at sets out what we look at and in what order, and where to sell paintings in the UK compares the routes once you know what you have.