# Arthur David McCormick artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:50:22.831Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Etching

## About Arthur David McCormick

Arthur David McCormick (1860–1943) was a British painter and illustrator; authority records also identify him as an etcher. His career spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and surviving descriptions associate his work with landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and genre scenes. Rather than placing him within a named movement, the available evidence presents him through professional roles and subject specialisms. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, illustrative compositions, and etchings, with maritime or historical imagery alongside landscape and everyday-life subjects. Authority files also preserve name forms such as A. D. McCormick and Arthur David MacCormick, which are useful when matching catalogues and auction records. The current source pack confirms the broad outline of his identity through Wikidata and VIAF, while Wikipedia supplies the clearest collected summary of his subjects. More detailed institutional biography, training, exhibition history, and collection holdings remain to be established.

## Common works and media

Works associated with McCormick include paintings and illustrations of landscapes, historical events, naval subjects, and genre scenes. VIAF also identifies him as an etcher, so impressions attributed to him may appear alongside original painted or illustrative compositions. No documented edition catalogue, named series, or preferred physical medium is established by the current source pack.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input associates 124 auction records with Arthur David McCormick, but that count is a discovery signal rather than proof that every record is correctly attributed. A useful appraisal should first distinguish among paintings, illustrations, and etchings, then compare works with similar subjects and sale contexts. Landscape, naval, historical, and genre compositions should not automatically be treated as one market category. Relevant public records can help when their work type, dimensions, attribution, sale date, and realized price are documented. The collected source pack does not establish an artist-specific price trend or premium, so conclusions should remain tied to verified object facts and genuinely comparable lots.

## 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 and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18159603
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/116773701/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027864
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_David_McCormick
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-david-mccormick/