# Alfred William Parsons artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:02:47.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1847-12-02
- Death date: 1920-01-16
- Nationality: English, British
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolour, Illustration

## Portrait

![Alfred William Parsons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Picture_of_Alfred_Parsons.jpg)
not stated · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_of_Alfred_Parsons.jpg

## About Alfred William Parsons

Alfred William Parsons (1847–1920), also recorded as Alfred Parsons, was an English artist whose practice joined landscape painting, illustration, watercolour, and garden design. He worked in both oils and watercolour and carried the professional designations RA and PRWS. Landscape is the clearest subject identified by the collected sources, while his activity as a garden designer adds an important context for garden and designed-landscape imagery. The source pack does not establish a named art movement for Parsons, so his page is better grounded in his media, subjects, and professional roles than in a speculative stylistic label. Collectors may encounter his name on oil paintings, watercolours, illustrations, and other works on paper. Stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, Tate, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and Art UK help distinguish this British artist from other people with similar names and provide useful anchors for entity matching.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Parsons may appear as oil landscapes, landscape watercolours, illustrations, and other works on paper. Garden and designed-landscape imagery may also be relevant because he worked as both an artist and a garden designer. The collected evidence does not establish a documented edition practice, sculpture, ceramics, or a named series, so those categories should not be inferred without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish that a work is associated with Alfred William Parsons rather than another person sharing the shorter name Alfred Parsons. Medium matters because his documented practice includes oils, watercolours, and illustration, which should be compared within their appropriate work types. Landscape and garden-related subject matter can help place an object within his known artistic context, but subject alone does not establish authorship. When public auction records are available, useful comparisons should align the work with closely related lots and consider their sale dates and realized prices. The present source pack does not contain a fetched major-auction-house catalogue entry, so it does not support price forecasts, market-trend claims, or a record-price statement.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4723267
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alfred-parsons-413
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030793
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88063325
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG41208
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6421.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/parsons-alfred-william-18471920
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Parsons_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Parsons
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-william-parsons/