# Alfred Vickers artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:16:09.284Z
Quality: medium confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

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

## About Alfred Vickers

Alfred Vickers (1786–1868) was a British painter best represented in the available institutional sources by landscape subjects. Art UK records works across United Kingdom public collections, including Orleans House, A Coast Scene, Gypsy Encampment, Windsor Castle from the Thames, Dutch Landscape, and A Farmstead among Trees. These titles indicate a practice encompassing rural scenery, waterways, architecture, coastal views, and inhabited landscapes rather than a single documented series. VIAF, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and the British Museum provide authority records that help distinguish him from similarly named artists, including Alfred Henry Vickers. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name on nineteenth-century landscape paintings and in auction listings for British pictures. The collected sources do not establish a specific artistic movement or complete birth and death dates, so those details should not be inferred. Attribution should be evaluated through signatures, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and comparison with documented works in public collections.

## Common works and media

The strongest source evidence concerns landscape paintings, including rural and wooded scenes, farms, cattle, rivers, coastal views, country houses, and castles. Art UK documents examples in public collections, while VIAF lists related landscape titles. Appraisily's broader auction taxonomy also includes works on paper and prints, but individual medium and attribution should be verified lot by lot. Sculpture, mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition labels appear in the market taxonomy with weaker artist-specific support and should not be assumed to represent a substantial part of Vickers's documented output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market index contains a substantial body of matched auction records for Alfred Vickers, but it also warns that its category coverage is broad and that private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may be absent. For appraisal, compare like with like: medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition and restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, and attribution confidence can all affect relevance. Recent public results are most useful when the comparable lot closely resembles the work being assessed. Reported prices may not be directly equivalent when buyer's premiums or other fees are handled differently. Market data should therefore support, rather than replace, object-level inspection, authorship research, and condition assessment.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18600470
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020655
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95808238/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/80875
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG49722
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/vickers-alfred-17861868
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-vickers/