Renaissance
1400–1600Leonardo da Vinci · Raphael · Botticelli
House · IIThe Lovenhall Registry№ II
Johannes Vermeer · Dutch, 1632–1675
Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665
Mauritshuis, The Hague · public domain
Lovenhall Art
House of the Canvas
Free on iPhone, iPad & Android · the tools below are free in the browser
№ II · iPhone, iPad & AndroidNº I · The Instrument
Art Identifier
Point the camera at a painting and the instrument surfaces the likely artist, title, period and movement — a pocket guide for a museum wall, an estate sale, or something found in an attic.
Likely artist, title, period and movement
The work's context, in plain language
Clues that separate an original from a print
Free on iPhone, iPad & Android. Any figure it gives is an estimate, not an appraisal.
What it reads, and what it cannotNº II · In the Hand
Three moves, and you have a figure
You photograph it. The instrument reads it. You know where you stand.
I
You photograph it
One photograph. Nothing to fill in, nothing to send away.
II
It reads what it sees
The reading happens there and then, on the phone.
III
You have a figure to work from
A range, in seconds — enough to know where you stand.
Nº III · Movements
Five centuries, charted
Baroque
1600–1750Caravaggio · Rembrandt · Velázquez
Impressionism
1860–1890Claude Monet · Renoir · Degas
Post-Impressionism
1885–1910Van Gogh · Cézanne · Gauguin
Cubism
1907–1920sPicasso · Braque · Gris
Surrealism
1920s–1950sDalí · Magritte · Ernst
Nº IV · The Free Tools
Free tools of the room
A range to orient you, in seconds.
Signature ReaderIdentify an artist's signatureSoon
Nº V · Field Notes
On the reading of paintings
- Value follows the artist's market, the period within their output, and the quality of the individual work.
- Comparable sales — like works, sold recently and publicly — anchor any credible figure.
- Condition, size, subject and exhibition history each move the estimate up or down.
Nº VI · The Register of Makers
Authenticate a work of art
Who is allowed to speak for each artist, what the catalogues record, and what a loupe settles before either of them is needed.
All 10 artists we read
The Journal
From the Journal
Longer, plain-English guides on the questions we are asked most — free to read.
Lovenhall ArtWrite about a work
A question about an instrument, a piece it could not place, a partnership or a press enquiry — the house answers every note, in confidence.