In 2014 Jeffrey Brown completed courses at the Rhode Island School of Design in the appraisal of personal property, conducted in conjunction with the American Society of Appraisers. He has taken the USPAP course and exam for guidelines set down for the industry as detailed in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, as well as taking the required update classes.

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As an independent appraiser he has since written appraisals for private clients, as well as for donations to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. State Department; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; Winterthur; the Worcester Art Museum; the Clark Institute; the Minneapolis Museum of Arts; Dumbarton House; the Forbes House Museum; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Preservation Society of Newport County; the Wadsworth Athenaeum; the Reeves Collection, and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Cultural Heritage at Brown University, as well as working with organizations such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Trustees of Reservations, the Thoreau Institute, and St. Mark’s School. Estate and insurance appraisals have also been written for the clients of such prominent firms as Hemenway and Barnes; Rackemann, Sawyer, & Brewster; Verrill Dana, LLP, Sullivan &Worcester; Ropes & Gray; Day Pitney, LLP; the Fiduciary Trust Company, all of Boston, MA, in addition to Tinti & Navins, Gilmore & Reese of Wellesley, MA; Brier, Marandett & Rossetti, LLP of Needham, MA; the Andover Group, Andover, MA; and Flather & Perkins in Washington, D.C. He was formerly a Generalist Appraiser with the firm of Brigitte Fletcher and Associates in Boston, and currently consults with clients of Trefler’s Restoration Services in Newton, MA. He is a member of the American Ceramics Circle; the Decorative Arts Trust; the Royal Oak Foundation; the Collections Committee at Gore Place; and formerly the Boston Seminarians, as well as a long-time member, past president, and current newsletter editor of the Ceramics Study Club of Boston. 

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A 1978 graduate with a degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College, Mr. Brown has been for forty years an ardent student and collector of the decorative arts, attending lectures and courses on many subjects in the field. For the past thirty years he has worked with Polly Latham in Boston, a noted specialist and dealer in the field of Chinese export porcelain. This relationship has placed him in almost constant contact with other dealers, collectors, and curators, as well as auctions, antique shows, and trade literature, giving him a working knowledge of today’s marketplace for fine and decorative arts. 

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