Archive Appraisals

Gallery Lingard provides professional appraisals of architectural archives.  We act for the architectural profession at home and abroad, for museums and galleries, private estates, the families of architects and any other public or private clients who own collections of architectural drawings. 

Whether your collection consists of just a handful of interesting original sketches or thousands of drawings, models and other architectural records, historical or contemporary, the Gallery provides valuation appraisals as required for:

Acquisition, private treaty and negotiated sales
Insurance and balance sheet purposes
Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax considerations
Acceptance in Lieu and United Kingdom taxation
Assessing net worth and donations
Estates Valuation planning
Property division and equitable distribution 

Cyril A Farey (1888-1954) Luton Town Hall, 1934-38: perspective

Our clients include museums, libraries and galleries in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, South America, Canada and Scandinavia as well as Government institutions. 

The Gallery has also undertaken professional appraisals for trustees, legal firms and estate managers acting for Historic and Country House owners with architectural and heritage collections.  The Directors have many years of experience as brokers of Private Treaty Sales for independent owners of private collections. 

Architectural practices at home and abroad, as well as individual architects and their families, have also required appraisals of their archives and the Gallery have assisted them in finding an appropriate home for such collections by way of an appraisal and negotiation of a private treaty sale on their behalf.

Enquiries concerning archives of any quantity are welcomed.  Please email:  jbl@gallerylingard.com

Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996) Chermayeff's House at Bentley Wood near Halland, East Sussex, 1937-38:  perspective

Matters on which the Gallery has recently acted include:

Valuations for Assessing net worth
Appraising the architectural archives of two internationally renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architects and two RIBA Stirling Prize winners.

National Museum Collection Valuation and Acquisition 
For one international Pritzer Prize winning architect the Gallery were appointed by a National Architecture Museum to provide values for the architect's archive which assisted the Museum in the subsequent acquisition of the complete archive for their National Collection.

Valuations of Architectural Archives for Loan and Exhibition
Advising the family of a world-famous, international architect who was honoured by Harvard University, the RIBA and the American Institute of Architects as well as receiving the prestigious Legion d'Honneur medal award from the, then, French President Georges Pompidou.   We were able to assist his family in providing a valuation appraisal for a group of architectural drawings to cover the loan arrangements for exhibiting the drawings in a European museum and their subsequent offer for sale.

Archives offered for Acceptance in Lieu
Acting for the Trustee of an historic estate to assess the value of a pre-eminent collection of 19th century British architectural drawings for Acceptance in Lieu purposes.   This application for AIL was successfully accepted. 

Acting for the family of an architect to assess the value of an architectural archive built up over his lifetime for Acceptance in Lieu purposes.  This application for AIL was successfully accepted.

Archive Valuation for family of an architect with Exhibition and Private Treaty Sale to a Museum
Cataloguing and valuing the archive of a 20th century European architect, then curating an exhibition of drawings and records selected from his extensive archive in London.  Organising the transfer of the exhibition to a European museum where the Gallery successfully negotiated the sale of the entire archive to form a special permanent museum collection devoted to the life and career of the architect.

For further information and all enquiries, please contact us by email or telephone/fax: 
jbl@gallerylingard.com
+44 (0)1743 235591

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