# Alfred Casile artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-casile/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:42:35.854Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1848-02-09
- Death date: 1909-06-01
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Alfred Casile](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Alfred_Casile_par_Fernande_Mertens.jpg)
Attributed to Fernande de Mertens · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Casile_par_Fernande_Mertens.jpg

## About Alfred Casile

Alfred Casile (1848–1909) was a French painter identified in the available sources with landscape and marine painting. The collected records connect him to Wikidata and the Getty Union List of Artist Names, while the French biographical source records Marseille as both his birthplace and place of death. The source pack does not establish a named movement, school, teacher, or formal series, so this profile does not assign one. Collectors are most likely to encounter Casile through paintings catalogued by subject, especially landscapes and marine views, rather than through editions or sculptural work, neither of which is documented here. His life dates place him in the later nineteenth and opening twentieth centuries. For entity matching, stable authority identifiers are more dependable than name spelling alone, particularly when comparing auction listings or older catalogue records that may provide limited biographical detail.

## Common works and media

Available sources identify Casile as a painter of landscapes and marine subjects. Works encountered under his name are therefore most plausibly catalogued as landscape or marine paintings. The source pack does not substantiate prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, editions, named series, or a specific paint medium such as oil or watercolor, so those categories should not be inferred without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, first confirm that a listing refers to the French painter Alfred Casile rather than a similarly named person, using stable authority records where possible. The available evidence supports landscape and marine subject classifications, so comparisons should distinguish between those subjects. Appraisily's artist page indicates auction-price coverage, but this source pack contains no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes. It therefore cannot support a price range or market trend. A defensible valuation would require verified public sales of genuinely comparable works together with object-level examination and reliable cataloguing evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2835005
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500072617
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91020437
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/71666827/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Casile
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Casile
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-casile/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Casile_par_Fernande_Mertens.jpg