# Bertram Priestman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bertram-priestman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:35:17.403Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About Bertram Priestman

Bertram Priestman (1868–1951) was a British painter whose surviving public identity records and auction-facing descriptions associate him primarily with landscape painting. Examples in the collected material include Suffolk scenery, pastoral compositions with cattle and figures, and coastal views, most often described as oil on canvas. Collectors may encounter works bearing a signature, initials, or an inscribed date, although those details require examination rather than reliance on catalogue text alone. The available evidence explains Priestman most securely through his identity and representative work types; it does not support assigning him to a specific movement, named series, or fully documented training history. Stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Art UK provide useful entity-matching anchors. Because the present source set is much stronger on identifiers and individual work descriptions than on scholarly biography, this profile leaves exact birth and death dates, institutional affiliations, and movement labels unresolved rather than filling those gaps speculatively.

## Common works and media

The collected examples are predominantly landscape paintings in oil on canvas. Documented subjects include Suffolk scenery, cattle beside water, rural figures, and coastal views. Auction and appraisal records may distinguish works by dimensions, support, signature format, date, condition, framing, and provenance. The present evidence does not establish a named series or a complete catalogue of Priestman’s media.

## Market and appraisal context

Priestman’s market context should be assessed work by work. The collected auction metadata emphasizes landscape paintings in oil on canvas, including pastoral, cattle, figure, and coastal subjects. Relevant appraisal variables include medium and support, dimensions, subject, signature or initials, inscribed date, condition, frame condition, and documented provenance. These characteristics help determine whether a public auction result is genuinely comparable. The source pack does not provide verified realized prices or enough dated sales to establish a price trend, so comparisons should be restricted to works with similar scale, medium, subject, date, condition, and attribution confidence. Catalogue descriptions and inscriptions are useful evidence, but they should be reconciled with physical examination and provenance research.

## 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. This profile distinguishes verified identity evidence from auction-derived work descriptions and does not infer a price trend where supporting sales data is absent.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21460293
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016008
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95779236/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/64820
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/priestman-bertram-18681951
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_Priestman_-_c4d4e9e836.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_Priestman_-_7024b45800.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_Priestman_-_7c34fb2bdf.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bertram_Priestman_-_1f947b69ef.jpg