Stephen P. Sweeting, MA, MRICS 

Stephen Sweeting is a professional appraiser with more than 30 years of experience in fine art, antiques, and decorative arts. He began his career in the 1980s in the dealer and auction sectors, transitioning to full-time appraisal work in 1990.

Between 1993 and 2023, he was one of the two founding principals at Appraisal Associates, a Toronto-based firm serving public institutions, insurers, corporations and private collectors nationwide. The firm was especially active in preparing Certified Cultural Property and gifts-in-kind donation appraisals for Canadian museums.

Stephen Sweeting has been a Chartered Arts & Antiques Surveyor (MRICS) with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors since 2009 — a designation held by very few personal property appraisers in Canada. His election to RICS membership followed his ASA accreditation with the American Society of Appraisers and reflects his longstanding commitment to high-level standards of valuation. Stephen has contributed to RICS’s professional discourse and has been published in one of the Institution’s journals. He continues to uphold RICS’s global principles of integrity, transparency, and professionalism in all his appraisal work.

He holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Studies (specializing in Cultural Studies) from Alberta’s Athabasca University and an Honours BA from the University of Toronto. He has written on many valuation-related topics and formerly taught an MA-level course titled Art & Crime. Stephen’s appraisal-related publications history can be reviewed here.

In 2024, following the earlier death of longtime business partner Edie Yeomans, FASA, he established S. P. Sweeting Appraisals to continue offering research-driven, authoritative valuations to Canadian clients.

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