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Cain Fine Art
Cain Fine Art is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Houston, Texas. Listed specialties: Fine Art. Services, credentials and other facts stated on their own website are listed below.
Appraiser facts
- Specialties
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Houston, Texas
- Fees
Not supplied. Ask for written terms that do not depend on value, sale price or outcome.
For comparison only, not this appraiser's fee: 25 FAIR-listed fine art appraisers post an hourly rate on their own websites. The median is $200 an hour, and the middle half charge $150–$300 (checked October 2026).
- Website
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-16; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Credentials
- Accredited Member, Appraisers Association of America
- USPAP qualified appraiser
- Memberships
- Appraisers Association of America (AAA)
- Appraises
- Post-War and Contemporary, American, and Western art
- Appraisal services
- donation, damage/loss, fair market value, retail replacement, estate tax and insurance scheduling appraisals
- collection management
- Experience
- founded in 2016
Stated on cainfineart.com, cainfineart.com/about, cainfineart.com/services; checked October 14, 2026. Not supplied to FAIR by the appraiser, and FAIR has not verified it. Confirm directly.
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Source record and dates
- Source checked
- Not supplied
- Profile record edited
- 2026-08-25
- Listed since
- 2026-05-16
- Source freshness
- Source-check date unavailable
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Fine Art
- Service categories
- Fine art
- Linked source
- cainfineart.com
- Discovery status
- Unclaimed appraiser profile
- Profile completeness
- Strong public detail
- Profile evidence confidence
- Website-backed public source
- Formal-use routing signals
- Unknown
- Why this profile appears
- A public source-evidence URL is attached to this registry profile.
- The profile has a listed office location: Houston, TX.
- Listed service categories: Fine art.
- Listed specialty language: Fine Art.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- The profile remains unclaimed and has a correction or removal path.
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Local read
Cain Fine Art is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile listed for Houston with a fine-art specialty and fine-art service category. The firm's own site presents Cain Fine Art as a full-service art advisory firm founded by Sara Cain, focused on Post-War and Contemporary, American, and Western art. Public pages describe art appraisals, art acquisitions, collection management, cataloging and inventory, donation advising and valuation, and divestiture planning. The services page gives specific appraisal-use signals: donation, damage or loss, fair market value, retail replacement value, estate tax and planning, and insurance scheduling. It also describes collection-management work such as condition review, cataloging, valuation reviews, risk evaluation, loss prevention, deaccessioning, and liquidation. Treat this as a Houston fine-art appraisal, advisory, collection-management, and divestiture lead, while confirming whether the assignment needs a formal report, valuation review, acquisition advice, collection care, or sale-routing support.
Public source signals are strongest for fine art, Post-War and Contemporary art, American art, Western art, acquisitions, appraisals, collection management, cataloging, donation advising, valuation, divestiture, fair market value, retail replacement value, estate tax and planning, insurance scheduling, damage/loss, and collection-risk review. The FAIR profile does not list a public fee statement or claimed profile control.
Before outreach, ask which person will prepare or sign the appraisal, which object categories fall inside or outside the fine-art scope, whether the work is a formal appraisal report or advisory valuation review, what inspection method is required, and whether fees are independent of value, acquisition, sale, or liquidation outcome.
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