# Angel Espoy artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/angel-espoy/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:39:49.735Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish, American
- Movements: Barbizon school influence
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Angel Espoy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Animated_Film_Corporation.jpg/1280px-Animated_Film_Corporation.jpg)
Byington Ford · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_Film_Corporation.jpg

## About Angel Espoy

Angel Espoy was a Spanish American painter whose full name is reported as Angel De Service Espoy. Available public sources connect him especially with California landscape and marine subjects, including coastal views and flower-filled scenes with poppies and lupines. A biographical source describes an influence from the Barbizon school, which helps explain the emphasis on natural settings and atmosphere, but the collected source pack does not include a museum or scholarly biography that independently confirms this characterization. Collectors are most likely to encounter Espoy through paintings offered in the secondary market, where subject, medium, size, condition, signature, provenance, and date all matter when comparing one work with another. Appraisily's matched auction page records an extensive history of public offerings, while also indicating that the category mix is broad or sparse. Identification should therefore combine the artist's name and characteristic subject matter with close inspection of the individual object and comparable documented lots.

## Common works and media

Collectors most commonly encounter Espoy as a painter of California landscapes and marine subjects. Public biographical material specifically identifies seascapes and flower-filled landscapes featuring poppies and lupines. Appraisily's auction index also assigns some matched records to works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions, but describes the overall category concentration as broad or sparse. Those secondary categories should therefore be verified against individual lot descriptions before being treated as characteristic parts of his output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public records report an observed auction range of $140 to $13,800 and a median realized result near $1,875, with many cited comparable sales between about $950 and $3,450. These figures describe historical records rather than a prediction for any individual work. A useful comparison should align medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, restoration history, signature, attribution, provenance, and price-reporting conventions. Flower landscapes and coastal subjects should be compared with genuinely similar examples rather than with the artist's entire auction history. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium treatment, and revised attributions can all limit direct comparisons, so an object-specific appraisal should also examine the work itself and its documentation.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43130039
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/26675
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Espoy
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/angel-espoy/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_Film_Corporation.jpg