# Charles Chaplin artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:55:31.279Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Oil painting, Pastel, Watercolor, Chalk, Lithography, Etching and engraving

## Portrait

![Charles Chaplin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Charles_Chaplin_%28peintre%29_par_C%C3%A9lestin_Nanteuil.jpg)
Célestin Nanteuil after Vincent Vidal · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Chaplin_(peintre)_par_C%C3%A9lestin_Nanteuil.jpg

## About Charles Chaplin

Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825–1891) was a French painter, engraver, and printmaker whose identity is documented by Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and French library authority records. He should not be confused with the later actor and filmmaker of the same commonly used name. Chaplin worked across oil painting, pastel, watercolor, chalk, lithography, and etching. Public biographical sources associate him especially with refined portraits of young women, while also recording landscapes and other portrait subjects. This range means collectors may encounter his name on paintings, works on paper, or printed works rather than in a single medium. Recorded forms such as Charles Joshua Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, and C. Chaplin can assist entity matching, although a name alone does not establish authorship. His varied techniques and recognizable portrait subject matter account for the different kinds of objects catalogued under his name in collection and auction contexts.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Chaplin include oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, chalk drawings, lithographs, etchings, and other engraved or printed material. Portraits—especially depictions of elegant young women—are the most frequently noted subject in the collected biographies, although landscapes and other portraits are also documented. Auction and appraisal records should distinguish unique paintings and drawings from printed works before selecting comparisons.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish that a work is being attributed to Charles Joshua Chaplin, the nineteenth-century French painter and engraver, rather than another person with the same name. The appropriate comparison set then depends on the object type: an oil painting should not be evaluated as though it were a pastel, watercolor, lithograph, or etching. Subject matter also helps organize comparisons, particularly for the portraits of young women associated with Chaplin, as distinct from landscapes or other portraits. When public auction records are available, the most useful comparables are documented works assigned to the same artist and matched as closely as possible by medium and subject. The collected evidence does not support a general price prediction or market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Coverage varies by artist and object type, so identity and medium should be verified before auction evidence is interpreted.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003178
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61818101/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/111185203
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1063936
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joshua_Chaplin
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chaplin_(kunstschilder)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-chaplin/