# Alfred Dawson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-dawson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:03:17.495Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## About Alfred Dawson

Alfred Dawson (1843–1931) was a British painter whose surviving public record is centered on landscape and place-based views. Art UK lists works held by the Ashmolean Museum, Reading Museum, Canterbury Museums and Galleries, the National Trust at Anglesey Abbey, and Nottingham City Museums & Galleries. Recorded subjects include deer in Richmond Park, Canterbury seen from Kingsmead, Windsor Castle from the river, Nuthall Temple, and Nottingham Castle with Brewhouse Yard. These holdings place Dawson most securely within British landscape practice, although the collected sources do not assign him to a specific named movement. Collectors may encounter his name on rural, river, park, and architectural scenes, as well as on works catalogued within painting and works-on-paper categories. Because some auction metadata gives conflicting life dates, attribution should be checked against the work's signature, date, medium, subject, and provenance rather than accepted from the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

The clearest documented works are landscape paintings depicting rivers, parks, rural settings, historic buildings, and recognizable British locations. Public holdings include views of Richmond Park, Canterbury, Windsor Castle, Nuthall Temple, and Nottingham Castle. Figures or animals sometimes appear within these settings. Appraisily also groups matched records under works on paper and prints, although the collected sources do not establish a complete catalogue of Dawson's media or editions.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's current public index contains a modest group of matched auction records rather than a complete catalogue of Dawson's market. For appraisal, the strongest comparison is a genuinely similar work: match medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and attribution confidence. Public-collection evidence suggests that landscape and topographical subjects are especially relevant, but this does not by itself establish a price premium. Compare realized results on a like-for-like basis because published totals may differ in fee treatment. Private transactions, incomplete auction feeds, and revised attributions may not appear in the dataset. Conflicting 1931 and 1922 death-year labels across identity and lot metadata also make record-level identity review important before drawing conclusions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity information with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may be incomplete, and each attribution should be checked against the object itself.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/dawson-alfred-18431931
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8919163813732839110007/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21454995
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-dawson/