Harold Harvey Auction Prices and Value Guide
Harold Harvey auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 217 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Harold Harvey auction prices: quick answer
Harold Harvey auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Harold Harvey
- Source records
- 217
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Harold Harvey
Harold Harvey (1874–1941) was a British painter associated with the Newlyn School, an artists' colony active in Cornwall from the late nineteenth century. Born in Penzance, he studied at the Penzance School of Arts under Norman Garstin before continuing his training at the Académie Julian in Paris between 1894 and 1896. Harvey spent most of his career in Newlyn, painting the everyday lives of Cornish fishermen, farmers, miners, and their families with a naturalistic approach characteristic of the Newlyn movement. His work also includes portraits, marine subjects, and broader Cornish landscapes. Harvey's paintings are held in public collections and appear regularly at auction, where they attract collectors of British Impressionist and Newlyn School art.
Newlyn Schooloil on canvasworking-class Cornish fishermen, farmers, and minersCornish landscapesgenre scenesmarine scenes
Common works and media
Harvey is best known for oil on canvas paintings depicting Cornish fishing communities, rural labour, domestic interiors, and coastal landscapes. His subjects include fishermen at work, women and children in harbourside settings, farm scenes, and occasional portraits. Works on paper are less common in the auction record. Collectors may also encounter smaller genre paintings and studies relating to his Newlyn-based practice.
Market and appraisal context
Harold Harvey's works appear frequently on the secondary market, with over 200 auction lots recorded. His oil paintings of Cornish genre scenes, coastal subjects, and domestic interiors tend to generate the strongest collector interest. Value is influenced by subject matter, size, provenance, condition, and whether the work can be firmly placed within his Newlyn period. Exhibition history and inclusion in published Newlyn School scholarship can significantly affect desirability. No published catalogue raisonné is widely cited, so attribution should be verified through expert review or comparison with documented works.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- No catalogue raisonné is referenced in the available sources, making comprehensive attribution verification difficult
- Market data is inferred from auction presence (217 Invaluable lots); direct price-range claims should be avoided without current comparable-sale records
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- VIAF (OCLC) library authority
- Getty Research Institute library authority
- Wikimedia library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Harold Harvey worth?
Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.
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