Use this registry profile to compare public facts before outreach.
This profile shows enough public fields to start a focused comparison, then confirm scope directly.
FAIR surfaces registry profile signals. It does not license appraisers, certify competence, certify reports, or guarantee outcomes.
Still missing or confirm directly: public fee statement, public USPAP education detail, public claim/authorized-control status
Correction/removal: request a profile correction or removal. Policy: complaints and corrections.
Heidi Vaughan, MA, ISA AM is a website-backed, unclaimed FAIR profile listed for Houston with a fine-art service category and specialty signals for 19th-century art, 20th-century art, auction company or gallery work, contemporary American paintings, sculpture, and ISA AM. The linked Heidi Vaughan Fine Art site places the gallery at 3510 Lake Street in Houston's Upper Kirby district and describes HVFA as an art gallery, art advisory, and art consulting firm. Its About page says the firm advises on art collecting, sales, cohesive collections, valuation, authentication, conservation, framing, installation, display, shipping, storage, deaccessioning, and liquidation. The same page states that the gallery specializes in art appraisal for insurance purposes, estate planning, equitable distribution, and charitable donations, and describes secondary-market art sales handled privately, through the gallery, and through auction houses. The available-works and exhibitions pages add current category evidence for represented artists, secondary-market collections, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, photographs, and private-collection material. Treat this as a Houston fine-art, gallery, advisory, appraisal, and secondary-market lead; confirm whether the need is an independent appraisal report, valuation consultation, collection advisory work, consignment, sale, conservation referral, or liquidation support.
Public source signals are strongest for fine art, 19th- and 20th-century art, contemporary American paintings, sculpture, Houston Gallery Row, art collecting advice, valuation, authentication, conservation, installation, deaccessioning, liquidation, secondary-market collections, paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media, photographs, insurance, estate planning, equitable distribution, and charitable donation. The FAIR profile does not show a public fee statement or FAIR-verified profile control.
Before outreach, ask whether the assignment is a formal appraisal report, collection advisory consultation, acquisition or sale discussion, consignment, conservation referral, or liquidation plan; confirm which object categories are in scope; ask who inspects and signs the work; and get fee, travel, revision, and independence terms in writing before sharing sensitive collection documents.
Written from registry data and this appraiser's public materials. Descriptive only — not a certification, ranking, or endorsement.
This ledger separates shown profile facts from details to confirm directly.
For broad Houston antique appraiser, antique appraisers Houston, antique appraisal Houston TX, and Texas specialist searches, use the canonical guide first, then compare individual profiles by specialty, inspection fit, and fee transparency.
No approved public reviews yet. Be the first to review this profile.
Fee statement not supplied: Ask for hourly, flat, travel, rush, and revision terms before sharing documents or scheduling inspection.
USPAP education not shown: Confirm current USPAP education and the report standard required for tax, insurance, estate, donation, litigation, or lending use.
This is a public FAIR directory profile. View the full directory at https://fairappraisers.org/directory/.