# Alfred Wheeler artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:59:15.918Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil on board, Oil on wood panel, Oil on canvas

## About Alfred Wheeler

Alfred Wheeler (1851–1932) was a British painter whose public authority records identify him consistently by name, nationality, profession, and lifespan. The collected evidence does not securely associate Wheeler with a named artistic movement, so his clearest context is subject-led rather than school-led. Publicly documented works attributed to him depict terriers, foxes and hounds, and racehorses with jockeys. Examples include individual dog studies, compact hunting scenes, and a named portrait of the racehorse St Simon. These paintings appear in oil on board, wood panel, and canvas, with recorded examples bearing initials, monograms, signatures, inscriptions, or dates. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Wheeler through British animal and sporting-art categories, particularly dog, hunting, and equestrian paintings. Because Alfred Wheeler is not a unique personal name, any appraisal should connect the object's physical evidence and provenance to the British painter identified by the linked authority records.

## Common works and media

The collected examples most clearly document oil paintings of British animal and sporting subjects. These include head studies and paired portraits of terriers, small fox-and-hound hunting scenes, and racehorses shown with jockeys. Recorded supports include board, wood panel, and canvas. Individual works may carry initials, a monogram, a fuller signature, an inscription naming the animal, or a date. The evidence pack does not establish prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, editions, or a formal series as common parts of Wheeler's output.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Alfred Wheeler should first establish that the object relates to the British painter born in 1851, rather than to another person with the same or a similar name. Relevant evidence includes signatures, initials, monograms, inscriptions, dates, provenance, and a credible chain of attribution. Medium and support also matter: collected examples include oils on board, wood panel, and canvas. Subject specificity can improve comparison, especially for terrier studies, fox-hunting scenes, or portraits of named racehorses. Dimensions, condition, paint loss, restoration, and whether the work has been examined under ultraviolet light should be recorded. Comparable sales are most useful when attribution, subject, date, support, size, and condition align; the available source pack does not support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates authority-supported identity facts from the more limited set of publicly documented artwork examples.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19601605
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95725250/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007277
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013003052
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/84007
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/wheeler-alfred-18511932
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wheeler_-_Alfred_Wheeler_Rough-Coated_Jack_Russell_Oil_on_board_7.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wheeler_-_3f2456e9a0.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wheeler_-_Head_study_of_a_Fox_Terrier_initialled_%27A.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wheeler_-_Two_Jack_Russell_terriers_signed_%27J.jpg