Meet the Select Specialty Experts

Angelique Brelsford, Review Appraiser, Needham MA

Angelique has over ten years of experience in the jewelry industry, from sketch to creation, sales, and appraisal. She obtained her Accredited Jewelry Professional certificate from the Gemological Institute of America, and has a Masters in Art Education from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with specializations in jewelry fabrication and illustration. Angelique has designed and handmade jewelry pieces for private clients, curated art shows, and retail boutiques. In addition to her appraisal duties with Enservio, Angelique has a special passion for performing investigative work on potentially fraudulent claims as well as negotiating fair retail replacement values with jewelers.

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Thomas Nolan, Musical Instruments & Collectibles, Boston, MA

Thomas Nolan is an appraiser specializing in musical instruments and collectibles, having joined the Enservio Select Valuation team in 2011. His personal expertise extends to music recording and distribution, radio broadcasting, film and video production, printmaking, and fine art. Along with coursework at the Art Institute of Boston and Massachusetts College of Art, Thomas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Harvard University.

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Christian Trabue, Review Appraiser Fine Arts, Louisville KY

Christian is a personal property appraiser with specialty in art and antiques. Beginning in 2002 Christian owned and operated her own personal property appraisal business and continued to run that business until she joined the staff at Enservio Select in January of 2009. In 2005 she designed and oversaw the construction of a new art gallery located in a historic property in Louisville and for the next two years managed and curated all of the art shows in that space. She received a B.A. in Art and Art History from Centre College. She completed the appraisal studies program at New York University in 2002.Christian is a regular speaker at historic homes and libraries, occasionally writes for art publications, and has appeared as an art appraisal expert on National Public Radio.

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Linda Merrill, Interior Design Specialist, Boston, MA

Linda Merrill is an Interior Design Specialist with Enservio Select providing expert opinion on the values and replacement costs of high-end furnishings, lighting and window treatments. Linda holds a Certificate in Decorative Arts from Boston Architectural College and has run her own award-winning interior design firm in Massachusetts since 2002. Her design work has been published in many local and national magazines and newspapers and her blog regularly appears on top interior design blogger and influencer lists. Linda was founder and moderator of one of the industry’s first podcasts on interior design and her book “How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business” was published in 2015.

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Erin Hollenbank, Accredited Fine Art Appraiser, Atlanta GA

Erin Hollenbank, ASA is an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers with a Specialty in Fine Art. Erin serves as a Fine Art Appraiser of the high-end valuation services of Enservio Select and Enservio’s Litigation Team. In that capacity Erin has conducted thousands of appraisals and valuations for the firm since July of 2011 and served as an expert witness. Prior to working at Enservio, Erin appraised and secured collections of fine art in excess of $1 million for insurance coverage purposes, charitable donation purposes, estate tax purposes and resale/liquidation purposes for 6 years, both in private and corporate practice. Erin also worked in the curatorial department of the Cleveland Museum of Art, served as a research specialist and consultant for high-end auction houses, and worked on sales and exhibition coordination in retail art galleries.  She also taught Art History courses at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ. Erin Hollenbank personally specializes in Fine Art, including, but not limited to, paintings, sculptures, photography, and printmaking from the 19th-21st centuries, both European and American in origin. Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History from Kent State University, is a University of Georgia graduate of the four-level Personal Property Appraisal program administered by the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and has completed connoisseurship courses administered by the International Society of Appraisers (ISA).

Publications in Insurance Journals

01-22-21, Claims Journal, The Case of the Upside-Down Miro

03-05-20, Property Casualty 360, Insights into Identifying Fake Artworks (Salvador Dali)

11-08-18 Property Casualty 360, Beware of Fake Bronzes in Fine Art Claims (Frederic Remington)

11-16-17 Property Casualty 360, The Art of Identifying Fine Artwork (Paul Delaroche)

02-23-17 Claims Journal, The Case of the Missing Picasso

08-15-16 Property Casualty 360, Determining the Value of Unsold Artwork

02-25-15 Property Casualty 360, Is it Real? How to Ascertain the Authenticity of Art

09-30-15, Property Casualty 360, Real or Forgery? Telling the Difference is a Fine Art

12-15-14, Property Casualty 360, Valuing Stolen Artwork

10-08-14, Property Casualty 360, Pricing the Priceless-Valuing irreplaceable works of art (Co-author)

07-08-14, Property Casualty 360, Valuing Art With No Signature – The Case of Maxfield Parrish

07-10-13, Enservio Blog, The Value of Historical Significance

12-20-13, Property Casualty 360, Identifying Picasso Leaves Much Etching to Be Desired

Insurance Industry Presentations

02-23-15 Spotting Fakes and Forgeries in Fine Art Claims Webinar

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George S. Colpitts Jr., Senior Appraiser, Enservio Select, Sparta, NC

George Colpitts joined the Enservio Select Valuation team in 2011, as a specialist in American and European Antique Furniture and Works of Arts. He is a second-generation antiques dealer and veteran of the Antiques and Decorative Arts retail industry, active on the nationwide circuit for over 30 years, with businesses based in both Vermont and North Carolina. An authority on Chinese Export Porcelain and Early American Furniture, he has served as Standards Chairman for the Antiques Council, an international, not-for-profit organization of antiques dealers. Mr. Colpitts studied at Middlebury College & the University of Vermont, with degrees in English and History of Art.

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Barbara Larson, Interior Design Specialist, Framingham, MA

Barbara Larson is an Interior Design Specialist with a focus on custom-made, high-end design items, including furniture, area rugs, lighting and window treatments. She has a degree in Interior Design from Newbury College in Boston. Barbara has worked on design projects all over New England and Florida, and her work has been featured in newspapers and magazines. Her extensive knowledge of the design world provides a perfect background for evaluating replacement costs.

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Lauren Casolo, Collectibles and Decorative Arts Specialist, McDonough, GA

Lauren Casolo is a Georgia-based appraiser with an academic background in history, education, interpretation, and material culture. With experience from appraisal firms, auction houses, and heritage institutions, Lauren’s valuation expertise includes nineteenth and twentieth century furniture and decorative arts, fine art, porcelain and silver, designer clothing, luxury goods, fine wine and spirits, musical instruments, and collectibles and memorabilia.

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Anne McEwan, Furniture & Interior Design Specialist, Sturbridge, MA

Anne McEwan has been with Enservio for over 14 years as a Furniture and Interior Design Specialist. She started her career with Enservio as a Project Manager meeting with high-net-worth insureds, inventorying and researching replacement costs of high-end furnishings, antiques, lighting and window treatments. Prior to that, Anne spent many years as an Interior Designer, luxury furniture store manager and as a furniture industry territory sales manager. Anne earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art and attended Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

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Rosemary Kress, Rug, Carpet & Textiles Specialist, North Adams, MA

Rosemary Kress has been in the art, auction, and appraisal world since the early 1990s starting with Freeman’s in Philadelphia, where she gained introductory knowledge of estate appraisals and cataloguing auctions, followed by hands-on experience in the fine arts as a photogravure printmaker with John Goodman Studios in Florence, MA. Her work in the past 13 years with Enservio has been focused on insurance and estate appraisals of weavings, textiles, and tapestries, specializing in antique and semi-antique Persian, Caucasian, Chinese and European rugs and carpets and she is team lead for this department working both in-house and with outside consultants and experts in this field. Rosemary was USPAP certified through the Appraiser’s Association of America (AAA) in 2019 and holds a BA in English Literature from Skidmore College, minoring in Studio Art and Art History.

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Deirdre Goodrich, Accredited Fine Arts Appraiser, Princeton, NJ

Deirdre is a Fine Art Appraiser specializing in Modern and Impressionist Art. She worked for over ten years at several major art museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Georgia Museum of Art, and the Princeton University Art Museum, then took her object and collections knowledge into the appraisal world. In addition, to completing her certificate in Appraisal Studies of Fine and Decorative Arts from New York University she earned a Masters of Art History from City College of the City University of New York and her Bachelors of Art History and French from the University of Connecticut. Deirdre has contributed to several scholarly journals and museum catalogues including the article, Paul Cézanne as Printmaker. She is an Accredited Appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America (AAA).

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