Providing your Donors & Clients with Tax Planning, Strategy and Estate Advice for their Collections
Presented by: Sebastian Clarke & Katherine van Dell
Co-Directors of Heritage Auctions Palm Beach
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
8:00 a.m. - Registration, Networking
8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. – Program
Location: Sarasota Yacht Club
How do you guide your donors in transforming their passion assets into purposeful giving? Join Sebastian Clarke and Katherine van Dell, Co-Directors of Heritage Auctions Palm Beach office and industry experts, who will provide invaluable advice to help you guide your Donors in documenting & safeguarding their collections, evaluating their value, and helping to make the best decision for effectively transferring, selling or donating these passion assets. Both Sebastian and Katherine are featured appraisers on the hit PBS show Antiques Roadshow. As appraisers, they’ll share real life stories of treasures found.
Sponsored by Bank of America Private Bank
About Our Speakers:
Sebastian Clark
Managing Director, Heritage Auctions, Palm Beach
Sebastian is the Managing Director for Heritage Auctions, Palm Beach office. With over 25 years of experience in the auction industry, he has served as a Senior Vice President at Doyle Auctioneers and Appraisers and the Director of the English and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts department, Specialist in the European Furniture department at Sotheby’s, Director of the English and Continental furniture department at Freeman’s and as Director of Trusts and Estates at Rago Auctions. Sebastian is a featured appraiser on the hit PBS show Antiques Roadshow and has been for the past 15 years. He is regularly featured as a specialist in furniture, decorative arts, sculpture and metalwork and silver.
Mr. Clarke is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Appraisers Association of America. He is a USPAP compliant certified member of the association.
For more than 20 years Sebastian has served as an auctioneer for major auction houses, non-profits, charities, schools and other 501c organizations throughout the United States.
Katherine Van Dell
Co-Managing & Fine Jewelry Director, Heritage Auctions Palm Beach
Katherine Van Dell is a jewelry specialist and Gemological Institute of America graduate gemologist. Katherine is Director of Jewelry for Heritage and Co-Director of Heritage’s Palm Beach office. She began her career in Philadelphia at Freeman’s. She later joined Rago Auctions and was instrumental in departmental growth as head of the jewelry. Katherine then joined Doyle as a Vice President and jewelry specialist based out of Palm Beach, Florida.
As a specialist, Katherine is constantly informed by her understanding of basic construction, aesthetics, and historical context. A graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Katherine studied metalwork, bench craft and art history in her undergraduate studies and later obtained her graduate gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America.
Katherine regularly speaks and writes on a broad range of topics relating to jewelry and the history of jewelry.
Katherine and her husband Sebastian Clarke, also an Antiques Roadshow appraiser, reside with their family in West Palm Beach, Florida.
