Allyson Lee

ALLYSON LEE is an accredited senior appraiser in the personal property discipline with a specialty in Fine Art and a member of the American Society of Appraisers. In 2014, after a twenty-five-year career in the art and antique auction profession, Ms. Lee established Allyson Lee Art Appraisal Services , a fine art and antiques appraisal and consulting firm specializing in private collection management and appraisals for estate, charitable donation, and insurance scheduling. Lee began her career in the Antiques and Fine Art profession in 1989, when she joined the Boston based auction firm Grogan and Company. In 2005, she was promoted to the position of Director of Fine Arts & Marketing, responsible for procuring fine art consignments, gallery management, and marketing operations. Her role included researching, cataloging, writing about and valuing more than 1,000 works of art annually, as well as collaborating with collectors, museum directors, art experts, and dealers from around the world. Responsibilities also included appearing at Appraisal Day events as the Fine Art Expert, supervising the appraisal department, and preparing appraisals of fine art for estate and charitable donation purposes. During her thirty plus year career, in addition to fine art, Lee gained significant experience researching, writing about, and cataloging antiques and decorative arts of all types, including American and European furniture, porcelain and other decorative works of art, silver, and Asian works of art. She has worked on a variety of large collections including, but not limited to, the Frederick Innes Collection of Asian Decorations, the D.D. Ryan Collection of Modern Furniture and Couture, A Room with a Vieux Collection of French Furniture, and the Jacob Noble Collection of Art Glass and Contemporary Art. In addition to appraising, Ms. Lee serves as private curator and art advisor to two high net worth clients. These collections include early American portraits, Revolutionary War related objects and ephemera, federal period furnishings, and colonial silver; while the other is comprised of over 2000 objects, including inherited and acquired fine art, furniture, and decorations, including American, European, and Asian examples. In addition to advising her clients on potential acquisitions, her curatorial duties focus on research, conservation and maintaining an up-to-date inventory. She works closely with law firms and wealth managers engaged in estate planning and settlement, as well as private collectors, retail galleries and institutions in the Greater Boston area and throughout New England. Lee received a Master of Arts Degree in Fine Art from Eastern Illinois University in 1987, completed the American Society of Appraisers Personal Property Appraisal Course Series in 2015, and became an accredited senior appraiser in the personal property discipline in February of 2019. She is a member of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Society of the Co...[truncated]