# Charles Dorman Robinson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-dorman-robinson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:26:23.068Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1847-07-17
- Death date: 1933-05-08
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Panorama painting, Cyclorama painting

## Portrait

![Charles Dorman Robinson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Charles_Dorman_Robinson.jpg/1280px-Charles_Dorman_Robinson.jpg)
Studio of Isaiah West Taber · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Dorman_Robinson.jpg

## About Charles Dorman Robinson

Charles Dorman Robinson (1847–1933) was an American painter whose practice encompassed landscape and marine painting as well as panoramas and cycloramas. Public biographical material associates him especially with Northern California, where his subjects included seascapes, regional landscapes, and Yosemite Valley. The collected biography reports more than one hundred Yosemite paintings, making that landscape a central recurring subject in his recorded output. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on conventional easel paintings as well as works connected to the large-scale panorama and cyclorama traditions. His identity is reinforced by stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, although several authority pages could not be fetched during this research run. No museum biography or scholarly catalogue was present in the source pack to establish a formal movement affiliation, so this profile describes his documented subjects and work types without assigning him to an unsupported school.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include landscapes, seascapes and other marine views, panoramas, and cycloramas. Northern California scenery and Yosemite Valley are especially relevant subjects in the collected biography. Because the source pack does not provide a lot-level medium breakdown, it cannot establish how frequently particular supports, dimensions, or formats appear at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by determining whether the object is a landscape, marine scene, or a work related to panorama or cyclorama practice, then identifying any Northern California or Yosemite subject. The collected biography presents Yosemite as a particularly sustained part of Robinson's output. Date, dimensions, support, condition, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and the strength of attribution should be documented before comparing sales. Appraisily's artist input indicates a body of auction records, but the collected pack contains no individual lot descriptions, realized prices, or major-auction-house analysis. Any value conclusion should therefore use verified comparable lots matched by medium, subject, size, date, condition, and attribution rather than relying on the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so market conclusions should be checked against the underlying records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076923
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021478
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/24536432/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002019715
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/67401
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dorman_Robinson
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-dorman-robinson/