# Arthur Wardle artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-wardle/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:19:49.945Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting

## About Arthur Wardle

Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) is identified in the collected sources as an English painter. Art UK and English-language Wikipedia associate his name with the same life years, while stable records at Getty ULAN, Tate, the British Museum, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish the historical artist across institutional catalogues. The available source text does not securely establish a particular movement, school, subject specialty, or detailed chronology, so those points are intentionally left unstated. Collectors may encounter Wardle’s name in painting catalogues and in Appraisily’s aggregation of public auction records, but identity matching should rely on the linked authority records rather than name similarity alone. This profile therefore emphasizes the supported essentials: his public identity, English nationality, occupation as a painter, and 1864–1949 lifespan. A conflicting 1860 birth year appears in one secondary-language Wikipedia record and remains noted as an unresolved discrepancy.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence securely supports paintings as the relevant work type because Wardle is consistently identified as a painter. It does not provide enough accessible institutional detail to characterize recurring subjects, techniques, print editions, drawings, sculpture, or named series. Such classifications should be added only after stronger museum, catalogue, or documented auction-lot evidence is collected.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is catalogued under the same Arthur Wardle represented by the linked authority records. The source pack signals a substantial body of auction entries on Appraisily, making comparable public lots useful when records identify the same artist and provide sale dates and realized prices. A name-level result or aggregate count is not a valuation by itself. The collected evidence does not include major-auction-house essays, condition reports, provenance histories, or detailed lot descriptions, so no price trend or price range is asserted. Object-level documentation and verified comparable records remain necessary before drawing a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates supported identity facts from details that remain unverified.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4800613
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022735
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/arthur-wardle-2120
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG50361
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/wardle-arthur-18641949
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/107371021/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2010004852
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wardle
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-wardle/
