Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants

It started with an email from an Australian in London to Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants. The gentleman explained he owned a portrait of his mother, painted in 1928 in Melbourne when she was just a girl of 16, but the painting was not signed.

Amid the controversy around Ronald Coles, many owners of works by D’Arcy Doyle, purchased from Ronald Coles and otherwise, have been thrown into doubt over the authenticity of the paintings in their homes, not knowing whom or what to believe.