Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers

Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers is a fine art and antiques auction house serving the Georgetown and Washington collecting community with the auction, the appraisal, and the estate services that the Georgetown area’s substantial collector population generates. Doyle, which was founded in New York as William Doyle Galleries in 1962 and which has established itself as one of the most reputable regional auction houses in the United States, provides the Georgetown collector with the auction and the appraisal expertise that the sale, the purchase, and the insurance or the estate valuation of the fine art, the antiques, the jewelry, and the decorative art requires.

The Georgetown collector market for the auction and the appraisal services reflects the neighborhood’s character as the residential community of the Washington professional and diplomatic class who have accumulated the art collection, the antique furniture, and the decorative art over the careers that have involved the Washington diplomatic community, the international travel, and the Georgetown cultural environment. The Georgetown estate, which may contain the Federal-period American furniture acquired over decades of the Georgetown residential life, the European paintings acquired during the Washington diplomatic posting, and the silver and the porcelain that the Georgetown residential family has accumulated across the generations, represents the specific collecting history that the Doyle auction and appraisal expertise is equipped to evaluate and to sell.

The Doyle appraisal service provides the Georgetown collector with the fair market value assessment, the insurance replacement value appraisal, and the estate appraisal that the specific legal and financial context of the collection’s management requires.

Services are available by appointment. The Doyle auction and appraisal services provide the Georgetown estate executor, the Georgetown collector considering the sale of the collection, and the Georgetown family managing the inheritance of the significant personal property with the specific expertise that the professional auction house brings to the valuation and the disposition of the collection. The Georgetown collector’s estate, which may include the Federal-period American furniture, the nineteenth-century landscape paintings, the silver and the porcelain, and the decorative art that the Georgetown residential life has accumulated, benefits from the Doyle appraisal’s documentation and the auction’s exposure to the national collector market.

The auction platform that Doyle provides allows the Georgetown collector’s property to reach the national and the international buyer community that the live auction, the online auction, and the post-auction sale format enables. The Georgetown collector who is considering the sale of the collection benefits from the Doyle auction market access that maximizes the sale price by presenting the property to the broadest possible qualified buyer community. Services available by appointment. Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers provides the Georgetown collector and the Georgetown estate with the auction house expertise for the fine art, the antiques, and the decorative art valuation and sale. The Georgetown community that uses Doyle for the estate appraisal and the auction sale access benefits from the national auction house expertise for the Georgetown collection.