EHA serves private collectors, family offices, estate managers, cultural institutions, and luxury brand partners across five disciplines.

IDENTIFICATION​

We recognise heritage material whose cultural and artistic magnitude far exceeds its current market positioning. Where the conventional market sees a coin, we see the dynasty that struck it, the artist who designed it, and the political theatre it was made to serve.

This capacity to read objects through the lens of Renaissance court culture — to see the relationship between a medal, its patron, its engraver, and the wider artistic programme of its court — is EHA’s foundational skill.

SCHOLARSHIP

Twenty years of institutional numismatic expertise married to deep knowledge of Renaissance art, court patronage, and dynastic history. This dual fluency — in the material culture of coins and medals and in the artistic world that produced them — allows us to establish the full significance of each asset in a way no conventional dealer, auctioneer, or generalist advisor can. We draw on art history, political history, metallurgy, iconography, and the primary sources of the Renaissance courts themselves.

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NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE

We construct the cultural and scholarly narrative that transforms an object from an artefact into a monument — connecting it to the great courts, artists, and dynastic architects of European history.

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We draw the line from the coin in your hand to the fresco on the wall, the sculpture in the piazza, the political alliance that reshaped a continent. This narrative is the restoration of context that the object has always possessed and the market has always missed.

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Most heritage assets carry a story that the market has omitted to tell.

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POSITIONING & PLACEMENT

We place heritage assets — understood and presented as fine objets d’art and objets de vertu — into the private wealth, institutional, and luxury markets where their true value is recognised.

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Our clients include private collectors building legacy holdings, family offices seeking culturally significant tangible assets, cultural institutions acquiring material of scholarly importance, and luxury brands seeking heritage partnerships grounded in authentic cultural authority.

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STEWARDSHIP

We guide our clients toward a relationship with heritage that echoes the great Renaissance collectors themselves — Isabella d’Este assembling her celebrated studiolo, Lorenzo the Magnificent curating the cultural identity of Florence, Cosimo I de’ Medici building the Uffizi as a monument to dynastic prestige.

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The acquisition of a heritage asset, properly understood, is an act of cultural stewardship — an investment in legacy that transcends the transactional.

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Tiziano Vecellio called Titian, Portrait of Jacopo di Strada,

c.1567-8, Oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.