# Arthur Royce Bradbury artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:18:33.913Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

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

## About Arthur Royce Bradbury

Arthur Royce Bradbury (1892–1977) was a British painter, draftsman, and etcher. Public authority records consistently identify him and his lifespan, while VIAF links his identity to the Getty Union List of Artist Names and records works depicting named sailing vessels and Poole Quay. Those titles indicate a documented interest in maritime subjects, including ships and harbor settings. Collectors may therefore encounter Bradbury through paintings, drawings, or etchings associated with British marine imagery. The available source pack does not establish a particular movement, school, training history, or formal series, so those classifications should not be assumed from the artist's dates or subject matter alone. His presence in Art UK, Getty, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata provides useful authority control for distinguishing his work and name from similarly named artists. Auction identification should still consider the medium, signature, inscriptions, subject, and supporting provenance of the individual object.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Bradbury as a painter, draftsman, and etcher. Documented titles include a barquentine and a brigantine at Poole Quay, supporting maritime vessels and harbor views as known subjects. Auction and appraisal searches should distinguish paintings from drawings, works on paper, and etchings rather than treating all results as interchangeable.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched market dataset reports 165 auction records for Arthur Royce Bradbury, including 96 priced records, across sales dated from 1995 through 2025. These records provide a comparison pool rather than a prediction for any individual work. A useful appraisal should compare objects of similar medium, dimensions, date, subject, and condition, while also examining signatures, inscriptions, restoration, provenance, exhibition history, and confidence in the attribution. Paintings should not automatically be compared with drawings or etchings, and maritime scenes may require more specific subject-based comparisons. Reported results can differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums and fees. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may also fall outside the available public-auction data.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may be incomplete and should be reviewed alongside attribution, provenance, and condition evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21458867
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500075319
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96213434/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/103725
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bradbury-arthur-royce-18921977
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-royce-bradbury/