The Art Loss Register

Name

The Art Loss Register

Legal name

The International Art and Antique Loss Register Limited

Website

https://artloss.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Item Registration Fees: Small initial administrative fee to register stolen/lost items on the database. Fee is charged per item with additional fees only payable if item is located.
2. Location Fees: 5% of ultimate net benefit to registrant when a registered item is located and recovered. Aligns company interests with clients in securing successful outcomes.
3. Recovery Fees: 20% of ultimate net benefit when ALR is appointed to actively represent clients in recovery process. Alternative to Location Fee when full representation services engaged.
4. Due Diligence Search Fees: Fees for pre-financing searches for banks and lenders before taking security interests in artworks. Searches cost from £60 / $80 / €70 with 7-10 working day turnaround, 24-hour service available.
5. Security Interest Registration: Registration of security interests in artworks for financial institutions. Price is £120 / $150 / €130 per item, or £100 / $130 / €110 per item in bundles of 50+. Minimum fee of £300 / $400 / €350 for purchases under 3 credits.
6. Positive Registration: Registration of ownership interests, partial ownership, consignment interests, trust interests, civil disputes. Single administrative fee of £300/€340/$400 per item, with discounts for 10+ items.
7. Art Financier Services: Due diligence and security interest registration services for art financiers, banks, and lenders providing loans against art collateral.
8. Free Services to Law Enforcement: All services offered free of charge to law enforcement agencies and nation states, supporting public interest in art recovery and cultural property protection.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Art Loss Register maintains the world's largest private database of stolen, lost, looted, and disputed art, antiques, and collectibles, currently listing over 700,000 items. The company provides three core services built around this database: Search (due diligence checks of items against the database for art market participants), Register (recording thefts, losses, disputes, and security interests on the database), and Recover (active recovery of stolen and looted items through a specialist team of lawyers, art historians, and archaeologists). The company also operates specialized sub-brands including The Watch Register and CHARD.

Product overview

The Art Loss Register operates as a unified platform combining a core stolen art database with specialized services and sub-brands. The main Art Loss Register database serves as the central asset, supporting three primary services: Search (due diligence checks), Register (reporting stolen/lost items), and Recover (recovery assistance). The ecosystem includes The Watch Register (specialized watch theft database launched 2014), the Cultural Heritage At Risk Database/CHARD (cultural property protection launched 2015), and specialized services for Positive Registration, Bank/Lender Services, and Provenance Research. Together these products provide comprehensive coverage for art market due diligence, stolen item recovery, and risk management across the art, antique, and collectibles sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Watch Register: The leading global database of lost and stolen watches, providing expert-audited theft checks for watch traders and buyers, as well as specialist watch recovery services to victims of theft and insurers. Launched as part of the Art Loss Register in 2014.
• CHARD (Cultural Heritage At Risk Database)

Products and services

• Art Loss Register Database The world's largest private database of lost, stolen and looted art, antiques and collectibles, listing over 700,000 items. Used for due diligence checks before purchases and to identify and recover stolen items. The database is searched against 450,000+ items on the international art market annually.
• Search Service Check objects against the ALR database to demonstrate due diligence, prevent handling of stolen art, and find out more about an object's history through the in-house Provenance Research team. Conducts over 400,000 checks annually on behalf of subscribing clients including 130+ auction houses, 15+ art fairs, dealers, museums, and law enforcement.
• Registration Service Report the theft, loss, or looting of an artwork or valuable item for registration on the ALR database. Includes stolen, missing, looted works, title disputes, freezing orders, financial liens, and works within permanent collections.
• Recoveries Service Specialist team of lawyers, art historians, and archaeologists who assist in recovering stolen and looted artworks. Works with law enforcement agencies and negotiates settlements or court action to return items to rightful owners. The team locates 300+ objects per year.
• The Watch Register The leading global database of lost and stolen watches, listing over 70,000 stolen or missing watches. Provides expert-audited theft checks for watch traders and buyers, as well as specialist watch recovery services to victims of theft and insurers.
• Cultural Heritage At Risk Database (CHARD) Independent foundation (registered in the Netherlands) that registers objects in situ at museums, warehouses and archaeological sites to ensure stolen items can be identified if offered for sale. Originally launched as a project within ALR in 2015. Provides pro bono registration services for cultural property at risk.
• Positive Registration Service Service for registering ownership interests, partial ownership, consignment interests, trust-based interests, security interests, civil disputes, and options to purchase/rights of refusal. Alerts registrants when their registered items appear in market searches. Single administrative fee of £300/€340/$400 per item, with discounts for 10+ items.
• Bank and Fine Art Lender Services Two-stage due diligence service for banks and art lenders: Pre-financing searches before taking security interests (£60+ per search, 7-10 day turnaround with 24-hour option), and post-financing registration of security interests to protect against unauthorized sale (£120 per item single, £100 per item bundled 50+).
• Provenance Research In-house team providing provenance research services to help determine the history and ownership of artworks, identifying potential issues related to theft, looting, colonialization, and civil disputes. Pricing from £30 per object.

Quantifiable outcome

• 300 objects located per year through database searches and recovery efforts
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CHARD (Cultural Heritage At Risk Database)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015CHARD originally started as a project within the Art Loss Register in 2015 and is now an independent foundation registered in the Netherlands. ALR continues to serve as the database for CHARD registrations. CHARD works to register objects at risk in museums, warehouses, and archaeological sites to enable identification if stolen.
• InterpolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerALR database incorporates Interpol Database of Stolen Art searches. Collaboration on international art crime investigations and cultural property recovery operations including Operation Pandora and Operation Aureus coordinated by Europol.
• TEFAFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerALR has been collaborating with TEFAF since 2000, providing vetting procedures at TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York. ALR team participates in numerous vetting days annually at these fairs.
• Art BaselcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerALR maintains presence at Art Basel fairs (Basel, Hong Kong, Miami Beach, Paris) conducting due diligence and vetting searches on works at the fairs.
• Italian Carabinieri (TPC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClose partnership with Carabinieri High Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy for recovery of stolen artworks. Joint operations have resulted in recovery of major works including Old Master paintings stolen in 1994.
• FBI / US Law EnforcementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerALR checks incorporate FBI National Stolen Art File. Collaboration on US-based investigations and cross-border art crime cases.
• Christie'scoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChristie's subscribes to ALR due diligence catalogue search services to verify items before sale.
• Sotheby'scoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSotheby's subscribes to ALR due diligence catalogue search services to verify items before sale.
• The Watch RegistercoreTechnology or IntegrationThe Watch Register is a specialist offshoot service of ALR, launched in 2014, providing dedicated database of lost and stolen watches with 70,000+ entries. It operates as a separate brand under the ALR umbrella.
• FCS ComplianceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on educational webinars covering customer and object due diligence, managing risk and criminal liability in the art market.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR): New York-based nonprofit whose 1976 art theft archive is the direct origin of ALR's database. IFAR publishes the 'Stolen Art Alert' and provides authentication and provenance research, making it the closest functional mirror to ALR's stolen-art registry and due diligence model.

Broad incumbents

• Interpol (Stolen Works of Art Database): Public-sector international database of stolen works of art, integrated with ALR's search workflow. Comparable in scope and overlap with ALR's law enforcement registrations, but operates as a governmental tool rather than a commercial due diligence service.
• Aon Art & Private Client: Global insurance and risk brokerage with a dedicated art and private client practice that overlaps with ALR's risk-management, due diligence, and recovery services for collectors, museums, and estates.
• Hiscox (Art & Collectibles Insurance): Specialist insurer of art and collectibles that uses stolen-art recovery and due diligence workflows comparable to ALR's insurance-facing services, including subrogation and recovery partnerships.
• AXA XL (Art & Collections): Specialist art and collections insurer with risk management, recovery, and provenance verification capabilities serving the same galleries, museums, auction houses, and private collectors that ALR serves.
• Chubb (Art & Collectibles): Major insurer with a specialist art and collectibles practice providing risk, valuation, and recovery services that overlap with ALR's insurance-client workflow.
• Marsh (Private Client & Art Practice): Global insurance broker with a dedicated fine art and private client practice offering risk advisory, valuation, and recovery services to the same collectors and institutions that subscribe to ALR's due diligence.

Emerging players

• Artnet: Public art market data platform providing auction results, price databases, and analytics that increasingly intersect with provenance and due diligence workflows adjacent to ALR's core service.
• MutualArt: Art market intelligence platform offering auction records, artist analytics, and valuation tools used by collectors and dealers alongside due diligence providers like ALR for ownership verification.

Others

• Christie's (Internal Due Diligence): Global auction house that is both a major ALR subscriber and runs its own provenance and authenticity research function. Comparable as a buyer of stolen-art due diligence and as a parallel research capability for high-value consignments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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