# Bolton Jones artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-23T05:36:15.000Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1848-10-20
- Death date: 1927-09-24
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Hudson River School (influence), American landscape painting
- Common media: oil painting

## About Bolton Jones

Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927) was an American landscape painter associated with the later Hudson River School tradition. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he trained in New York under the influence of Frederic Edwin Church before spending four formative years in Europe. After returning to the United States, he settled permanently in New York City in 1881, sharing a studio with his brother, the artist Francis Coates Jones. Jones became known for realistic, quietly observed rural landscapes of the eastern United States, rendered at different seasons and typically devoid of human figures. His work earned exhibition prizes in both the United States and France. Today his paintings are held by institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

## Common works and media

Bolton Jones produced oil paintings, predominantly landscapes depicting rural scenes of the eastern United States across seasons—spring meadows, summer pastures, autumn woodlands, and winter fields. His compositions are typically unpopulated, emphasizing natural light and atmosphere over narrative. Works encountered at auction range from small cabinet-size panels to larger exhibition-scale canvases.

## Market and appraisal context

Bolton Jones appears regularly in the American paintings category at auction, with over 300 recorded lots. Collectors should consider medium, size, seasonal subject, and condition when evaluating works. Oil-on-canvas landscapes of identifiable eastern U.S. locales tend to attract stronger interest. Attribution care is warranted because his brother Francis Coates Jones was also a practicing artist in the same period. Provenance traces to major museum collections or documented exhibition history may enhance value. No published catalogue raisonné was identified, so appraisal relies on auction records and institutional references.

## Appraisily data basis

This Appraisily artist page combines identity research from Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and the Library of Congress with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots drawn from the Invaluable database when available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17619497
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004141
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95705869/
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/42523
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018015018
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Bolton_Jones