This section of the website is a series of essays covering some of the issues we are asked about most often. We wrote a few of the essays ourselves and asked a group of specialists, all leaders in their respective fields, to write the rest. The essays are on topics designed to be of interest to anyone interested in collecting paintings or in the art world.

• Reconceiving Connoisseurship by Carol Strone, Fine Art Connoisseurship magazine, Spring 2010. June 17, 2010
• Picture cataloguing by Christopher Wright. February 14, 2010
• The insurance of works of art by Aron Shapiro February 3, 2010
• Good lighting for fine pictures by William Allen, CBE. February 1, 2010
• The History of Collecting Old Masters by Constantine Lindsay February 1, 2010
• Restoration of Old Masters by Patrick Corbett. February 1, 2010
• Prices of paintings by Ivan Lindsay February 1, 2010
• Rediscovering great artists by Lindsey Shaw-Miller. January 31, 2010